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Jan 6, 2022 · She took ill with pneumonia in December 1943 and died in Bridgeport Hospital on January 6, 1944, at age 86. The History of the Standard Oil Company remains a classic of investigative reporting, and Tarbell’s legacy as a someone who took seriously the credo that journalists should “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted” lives on.
Jul 5, 2012 · Ida M. Tarbell, c. 1904. Photo: Wikipedia. At the age of 14, Ida Tarbell witnessed the Cleveland Massacre, in which dozens of small oil producers in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, including her ...
- Gilbert King
Notable works. The History of the Standard Oil Company. Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative ...
Ida Tarbell (born November 5, 1857, Erie county, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died January 6, 1944, Bridgeport, Connecticut) was an American journalist, lecturer, and chronicler of American industry best known for her classic The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904). She was among a group of so-called muckrakers who helped establish the field of ...
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04035331. The History of the Standard Oil Company is a 1904 book by journalist Ida Tarbell. It is an exposé about the Standard Oil Company, run at the time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, the richest figure in American history. Originally serialized in nineteen parts in McClure's magazine, the book is a seminal example of muckraking, and ...
- Ida Minerva. Tarbell
- 1904
Sep 23, 2009 · Ida Tarbell passed away on January 6, 1944, at the age of 86. Her legacy as a pioneering journalist and muckraker endures, highlighted by her fearless exposé of the Standard Oil Company and her profound impact on the field of journalism. Tarbell’s work not only contributed to significant reforms in business practices and antitrust laws but ...
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Mar 19, 2021 · Ida M. Tarbell’s name would become synonymous with the term muckraker after publication of her 19-part expose of the business practices of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company that had destroyed her father’s oil business, as well as many other small oil related companies in Pennsylvania’s oil region in the 1870s. Tarbell’s work ...
