Exploring iconic photographs. Everybody wrote one essay and we will see the historic images. The program is moderated by one of the coeditors, professor Gary Gallagher. Peter has given me the official goahead. We are going to display mercy in this panel at the end of a long day. What we are going to do is go down the table. Matt joan, aaron are our panel. We are each room to talk about our photograph and i will start with matt. I am going to start with mattgallman matt gallman because this book was his idea. Is it ok if i stay seated . This is a book that we did and my job right now is to tell you about the impulse for this book. And what the book really is. They are sure got back there so you have no idea. Shrinkwrapped back there so that you have no idea. I am going to tell you something that might shock you, the idea emerges over beer. [laughter] matt we were sitting around and talking about what might be a good idea for a book. How about so that you have no idea. This . Most everyt
Exhilarating to watch them have dialogue back and forth and though it was 45 years ago, it spoke very much to the present tense. Brian and to your partner in crime . Morgan robert called me and said he had come across a bootleg tape of some of these debate between William Buckley and corbett all. Gore the doll. Gore vidal. I was very interested in him as a character. Buckley was someone we all knew from being such a tv presence, when i saw the debates i saw something that was really speaking to today as much as it was to 1968. We got excited and decided to make a film about it. Brian when did they start . And what was the point of your documentary . Robert they had their first confrontation in print in 1960 or 62. Bill on the right, gore on the left. Three columns, i think it was Associated Press that they did. It really became more personal when gore went on it the David Celestine david suskine show and dismissed bill buckley as kind of a categorize it like the right had been categori
And what was the point of your documentary . Robert they had their first confrontation in print in 1960 or 1962. Bill on the right, gore on the left. Three columns, i think it was Associated Press that they did. A stunt. But, it really became more personal when gore went on the David Suskind show and dismissed bill buckley as kind of a characters. He sort of made the rirght a the right a respectable place to be. Gore dismissed it and demanded equal time. Brian you knew gore vidal, did you know bill buckley at all . Morgan i did not. He was the revelation to me, i was familiar with gore, but i buckley the man, and buckley the tv personality. Buckley told one of his editors, upon moving to new york, dont hang out with the conservatives, hang out with the liberals. The conservatives are boring. Buckleys apartment in new york with his wife patricia was full of liberal writers and some of her gay friends and people in the art world. Not what i wouldve thought of. He really had kind of a goi