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Aaron Sorkin

SOURCE: Current Affairs
10/22/2020

The Real Abbie Hoffman

by Nathan J. Robinson

While The Trial of the Chicago 7 is sympathetic to Hoffman, it also softens him in a way that ultimately amounts to historical fabrication.

SOURCE: The Nation
10/21/2020

Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7

by Jeet Heer

According to Jeet Heer, "Sorkin takes many liberties with the facts, most of which are designed to make both the New Left and its conservative opponents more palatable to contemporary liberal viewers."