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‘Best of Enemies’ Review: Behind the Scenes of 1968’s Revolutionary TV Debates

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David Benedict Like all historical plays, James Graham’s latest, now playing at the Young Vic in London, is as much about the time in which it’s written as the time depicted.

His version of the 2015 documentary “Best of Enemies” stages 1968’s legendarily vicious TV debates between the foremost public intellectuals of the day: left-wing novelist and screenwriter Gore Vidal and arch-conservative William F.

Buckley. But although Graham, Britain’s most engaging and successful political dramatist, is clearly fascinated by the content, he’s actually more interested in the form.

He’s writing about the power — for good and ill — of television.ABC was in trouble. Their news coverage was running a poor third in the battle for ratings when the.

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