Ida Tarbell : portrait of a muckraker / Kathleen Brady.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brady, Kathleen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944.

Tarbell, Ida M.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Open Road Distribution, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Title Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; Foreword; I BEGINNINGS; 1 An Unaccommodating Child; 2 Pantheistic Evolutionist; 3 A Young Lady of Fine Literary Mind; II EXALTATION; 4 Une Femme Travailleuse; 5 The French Salon; Photographs; III SUCCESS; 6 The Americanization of Ida Tarbell; 7 The Lady of Muckrake; 8 Unexplored Land; 9 A Second Crusade; 10 A Bad Woman; IV VALOR; 11 Workhorse; 12 At Rest; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments; Copyright Page

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 14, 2016).

ISBN:

9781504018951

1504018958

OCLC:

941779344