Showing Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles by Chip Jacobs

HardCover. Pub the Date: October 2008 Pages: 384 in Publisher: penguin the Named one of 2009's best is environmental books by Booklist magazine; awarded co-silver medal for best withnon-fiction work at The Green Book Festival. Co-silver medal for best environmentalecology work at the Independent Book Publishers (IPPY) Awards and winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature from Santa Monica.The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26. 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible A reckless factory The truth was much worse - it came from within. from Southern California's burgeoning car-addicted. suburban lifestyle.Smogtown is the story of pollution. progress. and how an optimistic people confronted the epic struggle against airborne poisons bar...