The objectivity of American television news was the chief casualty of the debates chronicled in this outstanding account of a pivotal moment in small-screen history.
Hired by ABC to discuss the 1968 Republican and Democratic conventions, liberal provocateur Gore Vidal and Catholic conservative William F. Buckley detested each other and littered their half-hour exchanges with vituperative and often woundingly personal insults. Expertly contextualised by the insightful talking heads, this is a hugely entertaining exercise in unabashed intellectual nostalgia.
