Nostalgia Trap - Episode 235: The Sorkin Effect w/ Jon Wiener and Danny Bessner

Jon Wiener is an American historian and the author of a number of books on the 1960s and 1970s, including Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven. Jon returns to the Trap to talk with David and Danny about the Netflix film Trial of the Chicago 7, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. From questionable casting choices to an outrageously ahistorical happy ending, how does Sorkin's notoriously rosy, liberal take on American history color his depiction of 1960s radicalism?

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