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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 17, 2023 · And as an adult, Tarbell used her pen to fight back. Her 19-part exposé of Standard Oil’s backroom tactics came out between 1902 and 1904 and explained the oil industry’s machinations in easy-to-understand terms. It placed Tarbell among the best-known muckrakers of her day, and helped lead to the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911.
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
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 inspired ...
- Ida Minerva. Tarbell
- 1904
Ida Tarbell, American investigative journalist, lecturer, and chronicler of American industry best known for her classic The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904), which helped define the trend to investigate, expose, and crusade in liberal journals of the day that came to be known as muckraking.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
