Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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In 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to "incite, organize, promote, and encourage" antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants included major figures of the antiwar and racial justice movements: Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, the madcap founders of the Yippies; Tom Hayden and Rennie Davis, longtime antiwar organizers; David Dellinger, a pacifist and chair of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam; and Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, who would be bound and gagged in the courtroom before his case was severed from the rest. The Chicago Conspiracy Trial is an electrifying account of the months-long trial that commanded the attention of a divided nation. John Schultz, on assignment for The Evergreen Review, witnessed the whole trial of the Chicago Seven, from the jury selection to the aftermath of the verdict. In his vivid account, Schultz exposes the raw emotions, surreal testimony, and judicial prejudice that came to define one of the most significant legal events in American history. In October 2020, Aaron Sorkin's film, The Trial of the Chicago Seven, will bring this iconic trial to the screen.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-10-16
Mått140 x 216 x 24 mm
Vikt527 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor416
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226760742

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John Schultz (1932-2017) was professor emeritus of fiction writing and a member of the graduate faculty in fiction writing at Columbia College in Chicago. He wrote novellas, short stories, and several books of non-fiction. He was the creator of the Story Workshop method of writing instruction which he practiced at Columbia, and the founder of Story Workshop Institute, which brought the same methods to elementary and secondary classrooms. Schultz covered the 1968 Democratic National Convention for the Evergreen Review and wrote No One Was Killed, an account of both the convention and the clashes between antiwar protesters and Chicago police. He also observed the subsequent trial of eight participants for conspiracy and inciting riot, which he recounted in Motion Will Be Denied, republished as The Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Both books are published by the University of Chicago Press.

A beautiful, compelling, tear-jerking, mind-boggling book.--William Burroughs "Los Angeles Times" A masterful recapitulation of these anomalous events. . . . All politically literate Americans should read [it].--Timothy Sullivan, author of Unequeal Verdicts "Kirkus Reviews" If Schultz has offered us a drama that is a metaphor for this society itself, then his intensive concern with the jurors and their own special agony is its climax. His probe into their consciences--the play within the play--is a probe into the American conscience.--David Graber "Los Angeles Times" This work, aside from being a profound study of fear, is investigative journalism in its highest sense.--Studs Terkel "Los Angeles Times" "Schultz has written one of the few great trial books of our time. Taking the reader inside a uniquely American political show-trial, he demonstrates just how fragile our courts are, and how the massive poweer of the federal government can easily derail justice. . . . Any reader looking for a quick course in how a criminal trial can go wrong would do well to read The Chicago Conspiracy Trial."--Timothy Sullivan, author of Unequeal Verdicts