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Vale, Vidal.(Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964-2006)(Book review)

New Criterion,  March, 2007  by Rago, Joseph

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Gore Vidal Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964 to 2006. Doubleday, 277 pages, $26

August 1968. William F. Buckley Jr. had been goosed, against his better judgment, into a series of television debates with Gore Vidal, set against that year's political conventions. Relations between the two had been degenerating for some time, and in Chicago, their contempts built to detonation.

The terminal exchange came to concern the character of the violence in the streets, where student rioters, protesting Vietnam and other causes, were roughly beaten by the city police. "As far as ...

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