Tales of City Hall

I's not exactly topping the best-seller charts, but a new book by City Councilman Greig Smith provides a few chuckles and an insider's insights into the machinations and history of Los Angeles City Hall. Daily News.

Smith started working on the self-published 114-page text, "If City Hall's Walls Could Talk," when he was a young aide at City Hall and began compiling remarks by the colorful late former councilman, Gilbert Lindsay.

Over the years, as he researched more of the history of City Hall, Smith began to pull together information that found its way into the book.