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　　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 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 terrifying health costs, the

attempts at cleanup, and how the smog battle helped mold the

modern-day culture of Los Angeles. 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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　　Chip Jacobs has written for the Los Angeles Times, Daily News

of Los Angeles, and L.A. Weekly. He is the author of Wheeling the

Deal: The Outrageous Legend of Gordon Zahler, Hollywood's Flashiest

Quadriplegic.

　　William J. Kelly has written for L.A. Weekly, the Los Angeles

Times, Alternet, and California Journal. He was chief spokesman for

more than thirteen years of the South Coast Air Quality Management

District, the smog control agency for greater Los Angeles. He is

the author of Home Sweet Home, and senior correspondent for

California Energy Circuit. Both live in Los Angeles.

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　　*Starred Review*

　　Remember those great 1950s horror movies, when some

super-powerful creature menaced a city while the citizens panicked,

law enforcement officials bumbled, politicians pontificated, and

plucky scientists worked at a fever pitch to find something,

anything, to kill the monster? That's pretty much the feel of this

remarkably entertaining and informative chronicle of the birth

and--so far--inexorable evolution of smog. On July 8, 1943, smog

attacked Los Angeles without warning (well, not much warning).

People didn't know what to make of this gray mist that blanketed

the city, and when it didn't go away (or went away and then came

back), the citizenry began to react in strange ways: there were

rumors, for example, that this smelly cloud was some sort of

chemical attack by the Japanese--less than a year after Pearl

Harbor, this claim didn't sound so silly. By 1947, when it looked

like smog was here to stay, the governor of California created the

country's first smog agency. The following year, a documentary

about smog was released in theaters, animated by some guy named

Walt Disney, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter was writing

investigative pieces about the stinky mist. Later, smog helped

launch Ralph Nader's crusading career, and today it's a central

theme in the environmentalism movement. This book is just amazing,

a gripping story well told, with the requisite plucky scientists

(including Arie Haagen-Smit, a Dutch biochemist who was the Elvis

of his field), hapless politicians, and a nebulous biochemical

villain who just will not be stopped. -- Booklist (September 1,

2008)

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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 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 terrifying health costs, the attempts at cleanup, and how the smog battle helped mold the modern-day culture of Los Angeles. 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.