Now, in Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri’s latest play, the political foils meet again, but this time in hell—a.k.a., the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, CA.. A Distasteful Encounter with William F. Buckley Jr. by Gore Vidal Can there be any justification in calling a man a pro crypto Nazi before ten million people on television? I feel that’s what’s going on as I see headline after headline commenting on the new documentary about the famous verbal sparring match on ABC between William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal.
“They don’t make people like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley anymore,” Mr. Neville said in a recent interview.
Articles. Best of Enemies captures the legendary 1968 debates between two ideological opposites: leftist Gore Vidal and neoconservative William F. Buckley. William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American public intellectual and conservative author and commentator. On Experiencing Gore Vidal William F. Buckley Jr. August 1 1969.
My father, the late William F. Buckley, Jr. had a bit of history with the now-late Gore Vidal. August 1 1969 William F. Buckley Jr. Login to read this article. Can there be any justification in calling a man a queer before ten million people on television? William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal on the set (Magnolia Pictures) In the end, both men sought to preserve their inheritance, Western culture. Buckley had told ABC that the one person he did not want to face on television in the 1968 debates was Gore Vidal. On Experiencing Gore Vidal. Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. shocked television viewers in the summer of 1968 with their raw, combative televised debates. “Their lives are the kind of American lives that people don’t have anymore. Hendrik Hertzberg on the documentary “Best of Enemies” and the feud between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr.—and as Buckley's use of the term “queer.”
Reprinted without the permission of Esquire, The Hearst Corporation or the author. View Article Pages. Gore Vidal, a celebrated writer, cultural gadfly and occasional political candidate, died July 31 at his home in Hollywood Hills, Calif., at 86. Originally published in Esquire, September 1969.