The brilliant screenplay of the Academy Award-nominated 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.