The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Screenplay

By: Aaron Sorkin

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Synopsis: The brilliant screenplay of the forthcoming film The Trial of the Chicago 7 by Academy and Emmy Award–winning screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin.Sorkin&’s film dramatizes the 1969 trial of seven prominent anti-Vietnam War activists in Chicago. Originally there were eight defendants, but one, Bobby Seale, was severed from the trial by Judge Julius Hoffman—after Hoffman had ordered Seale bound and gagged in court. The defendants were a mix of counterculture revolutionaries such as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, and political activists such as Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, and David Dellinger, the last a longtime pacifist who was a generation older than the others. Their lawyers argued that the right to free speech was on trial, whether that speech concerned lifestyles or politics. The Trial of the Chicago 7 stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Frank Langella, and Mark Rylance, among others, directed by Aaron Sorkin. This book is Sorkin&’s screenplay, the first of his movie screenplays ever published.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 176 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781982163259
Related ISBNs:: 9781982163242
Publisher:: Simon & Schuster
Date of Addition:: 10/20/20
Copyrighted By:: Simon & Schuster
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.