The History of the Standard Oil Company
Author : Ida Minerva Tarbell
Publisher :
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Ida Minerva Tarbell
Publisher :
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Kathleen Brady
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1989-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822980169
In this first definitive biography of Ida Tarbell, Kathleen Brady, who is on the staff of Time, has written a readable and widely acclaimed book about one of America's great journalists.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 fragment the giant monopoly.A journalist of extraordinary intelligence, accuracy, and courage, she was also the author of the influential and popular books on Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln, and her hundreds of articles dealt with public figures such as Louis Pateur and Emile Zola, and contemporary issues such as tariff policy and labor. During her long life, she knew Teddy Roosevelt, Jane Addams, Henry James, Samuel McClure, Lincoln Stephens, Herbert Hoover, and many other prominent Americans. She achieved more than almost any woman of her generation, but she was an antisuffragist, believing that the traditional roles of wife and mother were more important than public life. She ultimately defended the business interests she had once attacked.To this day, her opposition to women's rights disturbs some feminists. Kathleen Brady writes of her: "[She did not have] the flinty stuff of which the cutting edge of any revolution is made. . . . Yet she was called to achievement in a day when women were called only to exist. Her triumph was that she succeeded. Her tragedy ws that she was never to know it."
Author : Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0547290926
The only biography of the pioneering investigative journalist Ida M. Tarbell for YA readers, lavishly illustrated with archival photographs and prints.
Author : Ida Minerva Tarbell
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Ann Bausum
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426301377
Tells how investigative reporting began with the muckrakers in the early 20th century.
Author : Stephanie Gorton
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062796666
A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure’s and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm—as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America The president of the United States made headlines around the world when he publicly attacked the press, denouncing reporters who threatened his reputation as “muckrakers” and “forces for evil.” The year was 1906, the president was Theodore Roosevelt—and the publication that provoked his fury was McClure’s magazine. One of the most influential magazines in American history, McClure’s drew over 400,000 readers and published the groundbreaking stories that defined the Gilded Age, including the investigation of Standard Oil that toppled the Rockefeller monopoly. Driving this revolutionary publication were two improbable newcomers united by single-minded ambition. S. S. McClure was an Irish immigrant, who, despite bouts of mania, overthrew his impoverished upbringing and bent the New York media world to his will. His steadying hand and star reporter was Ida Tarbell, a woman who defied gender expectations and became a notoriously fearless journalist. The scrappy, bold McClure's group—Tarbell, McClure, and their reporters Ray Stannard Baker and Lincoln Steffens—cemented investigative journalism’s crucial role in democracy. From reporting on labor unrest and lynching, to their exposés of municipal corruption, their reporting brought their readers face to face with a nation mired in dysfunction. They also introduced Americans to the voices of Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and many others. Tracing McClure’s from its meteoric rise to its spectacularly swift and dramatic combustion, Citizen Reporters is a thrillingly told, deeply researched biography of a powerhouse magazine that forever changed American life. It’s also a timely case study that demonstrates the crucial importance of journalists who are unafraid to speak truth to power.
Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : First Biographies
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Follows the life of Ida Tarbell, from her childhood among the oil fields of western Pennsylvania through her career as a biographer and investigative journalist.
Author : Ida Minerva Tarbell
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 1904
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Valerie Bodden
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1680797417
The Muckrakersdiscusses how in the early 1900s, Ida Tarbell and other investigative journalists brought about change by exposing the illegal tactics and unethical practices of corporations. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Ida Minerva Tarbell
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Tariff
ISBN :