William F. Buckley's guest is writer/professor Leslie Fiedler. Fiedler's essay "Love and Death in the American Novel" has become recognized as both highly controversial and profoundly influential in the worlds of literary criticism and ...See moreWilliam F. Buckley's guest is writer/professor Leslie Fiedler. Fiedler's essay "Love and Death in the American Novel" has become recognized as both highly controversial and profoundly influential in the worlds of literary criticism and academia. The discussion opens by debating the question of whether American culture is too much wrapped up in itself.
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