Best of Enemies

In the summer of 1968, as America tears itself apart over Vietnam and civil rights, ABC News pairs the cunning conservative William F. Buckley Jr. against the provocative liberal Gore Vidal for a series of live televised debates. What begins as intellectual sparring escalates into personal warfare, and as beliefs are challenged and slurs slung, a new era of partisan television is born. James Graham's sharp and entertaining play dramatises the debates that transformed American political discourse forever.