{"product_id":"the-trial-of-the-chicago-7-the-screenplay-9781982163242","title":"The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Screenplay","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe brilliant screenplay of the forthcoming film \u003ci\u003eThe Trial of the Chicago 7 \u003c\/i\u003eby Academy and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSorkin'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trial of the Chicago 7\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982163242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Aaron Sorkin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38027458674869,"sku":"9781982163242","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5b0f1343-b378-49dc-bc4c-f8482083ba25.jpg?v=1609192891","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-trial-of-the-chicago-7-the-screenplay-9781982163242","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}