Ida Tarbell

Portrait of a Muckraker

Biography & Memoir, Historical, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: Kathleen Brady ISBN: 9781504018951
Publisher: Open Road Distribution Publication: March 8, 2016
Imprint: Open Road Distribution Language: English
Author: Kathleen Brady
ISBN: 9781504018951
Publisher: Open Road Distribution
Publication: March 8, 2016
Imprint: Open Road Distribution
Language: English

Ida Tarbell’s generation called her a “muckraker” (the term was Theodore Roosevelt’s, and he didn’t intend it as a compliment), but in our time she would have been known as an investigative reporter, with the celebrity of Woodward and Bernstein. By any description, Ida Tarbell was one of the most powerful women of her time in the United States: admired, feared, hated. When her History of the Standard Oil Company was published, first in McClure’s Magazine and then as a book (1904), it shook the Rockefeller interests, caused national outrage, and led the Supreme Court to fracture the giant monopoly into several corporations, one of which survives today as ExxonMobil.
 

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Ida Tarbell’s generation called her a “muckraker” (the term was Theodore Roosevelt’s, and he didn’t intend it as a compliment), but in our time she would have been known as an investigative reporter, with the celebrity of Woodward and Bernstein. By any description, Ida Tarbell was one of the most powerful women of her time in the United States: admired, feared, hated. When her History of the Standard Oil Company was published, first in McClure’s Magazine and then as a book (1904), it shook the Rockefeller interests, caused national outrage, and led the Supreme Court to fracture the giant monopoly into several corporations, one of which survives today as ExxonMobil.
 

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