Director
Robert Gordon
DIRECTOR
Morgan Neville
Stars (in credits order)
Gore Vidal
Self - DebaterarchiveFootage
William F. Buckley
Dick Cavett
Self - Talk Show Host
Noam Chomsky
SelfarchiveFootage
Todd Gitlin
Self - Media Studies, Columbia University
Brooke Gladstone
Self - Host, NPR's On the Media
Richard Wald
Self - Former President, NBC News
William Sheehan
Self - Former President, ABC News
Frank Rich
Self - Writer, New York Magazine
Sam Tanenhaus
Self - Biographer, William F. Buckley Jr.
Patricia Buckley
Self - Buckley's WifearchiveFootage
Lee Edwards
Self - Historian, The Heritage Foundation
Reid Buckley
Self - Buckley's Brother
Linda Bridges
Self - Buckley's Personal Assistant
Fred Kaplan
Self - Author, Gore Vidal: A Biography
Matt Tyrnauer
Self - Vidal's Editor & Friend
Sam Donaldson
Self - Correspondent, ABC NewsarchiveFootage
Howard K. Smith
Self - Anchor, ABC NewsarchiveFootage
George Merlis
Self - ABC Publicist
Christopher Hitchens
Self - Political Essayist
Norman Mailer
Self - AuthorarchiveFootage
Godfrey Cambridge
Self - ComedianarchiveFootage
Muhammad Ali
Self - BoxerarchiveFootage
Eric Alterman
Self - Media Historian
Ginia Bellafante
Self - Culture Writer, New York Times
Elmer Lower
Self - President, ABC NewsarchiveFootage
John McWhorter
Self - Linguist, Columbia University
James Wolcott
Self - Writer, Vanity Fair Magazine
Andrew Sullivan
Self - Political Editor & Blogger
Everett Dirksen
Self - Senator, IllinoisarchiveFootage
Richard J. Daley
Self - Mayor, ChicagoarchiveFootage
Arthur Miller
Self - PlaywrightarchiveFootage
Paul Newman
Self - ActorarchiveFootage
Al Capp
Self - Political SatiristarchiveFootage
Shana Alexander
Self - Point CommentatorarchiveFootage
James J. Kilpatrick
Self - Counterpoint CommentatorarchiveFootage
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Self - New York Times Writer
John Lithgow
Gore Vidalvoice
Kelsey Grammer
William F. Buckleyvoice
Walter Cronkite
Mason Pike
Klan Memberuncredited
Nancy Reagan
Selfuncredited,archiveFootage
Ronald Reagan