Smogtown

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An engaging, casual history of librarians and libraries and a famous one that burned down. In her latest, New Yorker staff writer Orlean (Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend,etc.) seeks to “tell about a place I love that doesn’t belong to me but feels like it is mine.”It’s the story of the Los Angeles Public Library, poet Charles Bukowski’s “wondrous place,” and Author: Chip Jacobs.

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With wit, verve, and a new look at history through never-before-compiled sources, it highlights the bold. Smogtown A new book pops the lid on the dirtiest scandal Los Angeles has ever seen.

The MNN exclusive excerpt. Februa.m. Tweet. Photo: Cocola88/Flickr. Includes bibliographical references (p. []) and index State of siege -- Paradise obscured -- Dutchman over the Pacific -- L.A. against the world -- Campus life at smog state U. -- Roadtrap -- Bouffants & stethoscopes -- The people's revolt -- Brown vs.

brown -- The wizard of ozone -- Searching for perpetual motion -- He got the goldmine, they got the shaft -- Pages: Smogtown is the story of pollution, progress, and how an optimistic people confronted the epic struggle against airborne poisons barraging their hometowns.

With wit, verve, and a fresh look at history, California-based journalists Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly highlight the bold personalities involved, the corporate-tainted science, the.

Chip Jacobs is a Los Angeles-area author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of Smogtown: the Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles with William J. Kelly, and Wheeling the Deal, the Outrageous Legend of Gordon Zahler, Hollywood's Flashiest Quadriplegic.

On the journalism side, Jacobs' reporting has appeared in The Los Angeles. The NOOK Book (eBook) of the Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles by Chip Jacobs, WilliamJ Kelly | at Barnes & Noble.

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Smogtown: the lung-burning history of pollution in Los Angeles. [Chip Jacobs; William J Kelly] -- Smogtown is the story of pollution, progress, and how an optimistic people confronted the epic struggle against airborne poisons barraging their hometowns.

With wit, verve, and a fresh look at. As Jacobs and Kelly last looked at air pollution in 'Smogtown' about Los Angeles, the air is the main point addressed in this book.

Smog is caused by industry, home heating, power plants, cars and other sources such as barbecues and underground coal seam fires.4/5. Book Review: Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles, by Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly The tale of one American city’s epic struggle with smog may not strike you as the most interesting of reads.

There are scofflaws aplenty and dirty deals, plus murders, suicides, spiritual despair, and an ever-present paranoia about mass disaster. Brimming with historic photographs, forgotten anecdotes, and new revelations about our environmentally precarious present, Smogtown is a journalistic classic for the modern age.

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His most recent book is his debut novel, Arroyo, historical fiction set around construction of Pasadena’s mysterious Colorado Street Bridge at the turn of the century. It. Some of it gets burned off in Smogtown, a meticulous chronicle of the city’s signature airborne grime and of the civic and social forces that emerged to stop it.

The authors, Los Angeles–based journalists Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly, bring LA back to its unglitzy basics in a story of greed, pollution, and molasses-slow political change.

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