Documentarians Robert Gordon and Oscar-winning Morgan Neville collaborate for this historical documentary that examines the bitter relationship between redoubtable conservative big-thinker William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author and cultural iconoclast Gore Vidal, especially on their series of ten televised debates they did for the flagging ABC network's coverage during both the Republican and the infamous Democratic National Conventions in Miami and Chicago, respectively, in 1968. The two very complex but brilliant east coast elites were alike in many ways in terms of their backgrounds, but couldn't be more different in terms of their political ideologies, which made them see their mirror opposites in the arena of public discourse as an enemy to the future of the country that needed to be exposed to the public as a fraud and never to be trusted.
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