George Crile’s book Charlie Wilson’s War is one of the top ten modern history books we have read in the past five years. We learned how the U.S. Congress really works — how the sausage is really made. It’s not a pretty story — though in this case congressman Charlie Wilson and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos changed history. And certainly contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Now we learn via Glenn Reynolds that Tom Hanks is starring as Charlie Wilson in a new Hollywood film based on the book, directed by Mike Nichols, written by Aaron Sorkin. We’ll report back once we see the film. I will be very surprised if the true history survives the Hollywood process. More likely is that Sorkin twists the history around to deliver an anti-US, pro-Soviet lecture.
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