Mailer vs. Buckley: Good Fight, No Decision
Pete Hamill's New York Post account of the same 22 September Chicago Mailer-Buckley debate covered the same day in 62.13a (Talese, Times). Buckley called Mailer 'a writer of genuine talent who was also the most politically ignorant man I have ever met.'
“Mailer vs. Buckley: Good Fight, No Decision.” Article by Pete Hamill. New York Post, 24 September 1962. Article.
A second account of the 22 September 1962 Mailer–Buckley debate in Chicago (see also 62.13a, Talese’s Times front-pager same day). Buckley called Mailer “a writer of genuine talent who was also the most politically ignorant man I have ever met.”
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