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Author Jacobs, Chip.

Title Smogtown : the lung-burning history of pollution in Los Angeles / Chip Jacobs & William J. Kelly.

Imprint Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  979.494 J151s 2008    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 384 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-375) and index.
Contents 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 -- Action heroes? -- Epilogue: Conjuring Haagy's ghost.
Subject Air Pollution -- history -- Los Angeles.
Smog -- Los Angeles.
Environmental Remediation -- history -- Los Angeles.
History, 20th Century -- Los Angeles.
Smog -- California -- Los Angeles.
Air -- Pollution -- California -- Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Environmental conditions.
Added Author Kelly, William J., 1953-
ISBN 9781585678600
1585678600
Standard No. NLM 101489648
NZ1 12522552

 
    
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