Chip Jacobs: 5 books

Book cover of The People's Republic of Chemicals
by William J. Kelly, Chip Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014

Maverick environmental writers William J. Kelly and Chip Jacobs follow up their acclaimed Smogtown with a provocative examination of China’s ecological calamity already imperling a warming planet. Toxic smog most people figured was obsolete needlessly kills as many there as the 9/11 attacks every day,...
Book cover of Smogtown

Smogtown

The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles

by Chip Jacobs, WilliamJ Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008

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...
Book cover of The Vicodin Thieves

The Vicodin Thieves

Biopsying L.A.'s Grifters, Gloryhounds, and Goliaths

by Chip Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013

Investigative reporter Chip Jacobs goes deep into some of his most compelling journalism pieces of the last three decades with his signature spotlight on strange corruption, seedy individuals, megalomaniacs, bright ideas, and transgressive game-changers. Featuring in-depth and expanded stories previously...
Book cover of Strange As It Seems

Strange As It Seems

The Impossible Life of Gordon Zahler

by Chip Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Paralyzed from the neck down, Gordon Zahler rose from his deathbed to a fast-talking, Hollywood entrepreneur/idea man who traveled the world, lived hard, married, fantasized about water-skiing and chased his dreams to create one of the largest independent postproduction shops in Hollywood. While this...
Book cover of Los Angeles in the 1970s

Los Angeles in the 1970s

Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine

by Jeremy Rosenberg, John Densmore, Bob Chinn
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

The 1970s were a heyday for Los Angeles, Hollywood was being revolutionized, the music business was booming, and authors like Joan Didion were producing great novels about the realities of living in the land of eternal sunshine. In Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine, great writers muse on the city...
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