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What Aaron Sorkin Gets Wrong About America

By Troy Senik
Thursday, June 28 2012

Aaron Sorkin is something like the poet laureate of American television (though, in the debased world of American popular culture, that’s less of an honorific than it sounds). Sorkin, who has also scripted such films as A Few Good Men, The American President, The Social Network and Moneyball, is responsible for two of the most celebrated TV series of recent vintage, ABC’s critically acclaimed (but lightly viewed) Sports Night and NBC’s White House-centered megahit The West Wing. There are two hallmarks to his style: lyrical, fast-paced, whip-smart dialogue and unapologetic, sometimes…

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