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Name: Ida Minerva Tarbell
Birth Date: November 5, 1857
Death Date: January 6, 1944
Place of Birth: Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States
Place of Death: Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: journalist

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Biography of Ida Minerva Tarbell
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The crusading American journalist Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857-1944) is known as the muckraker who cracked the oil trust. She was also an outstanding biographer of Abraham Lincoln. Ida Tarbell was born on Nov. 5, 1857, in Erie County, Pa., the daughter of...
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Biography of Ida M(inerva) Tarbell
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Ida Minerva Tarbell is recalled as the writer who blew the whistle on the first and most powerful trust in America. The History of the Standard Oil Company, her most important work, was published in 1904 and immediately convinced the public that the...


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Tarbell, Ida (1957-1944) Summary
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One of McClure's muckrakers, Ida Tarbell changed the oil business in America. A female journalist was not common at the turn of the twentieth century, especially not one who muckraked or scandalized industry. From McClure's excerpts,...
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Ida M. Tarbell Born November 5, 1857 (Hatch Hollow, Pennsylvania) Died January 6, 1944 (Bridgeport, Connecticut) Journalist As a child Ida M. Tarbell watched her father, an independent oilman, struggle unsuccessfully to compete in a field dominated by...
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Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5 1857–January 6 1944) was a teacher, an author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of her day, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism." She wrote many notable magazine...


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Columbia Journalism Review
IDA TARBELL, PATRON SAINT.(Brief Article)
05/01/2001: 727 words, approx. 2 pages
It does not look like anything especially impressive today. It sits on an out-of-the-way shelf, one of millions of volumes in a cavernous university research library. Its green cover has faded after ninety-seven years of heavy use, occasional abuse and, ultimately, lack of...
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Columbia Journalism Review
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller.(Brief article)(Book review)
03/01/2008: 309 words, approx. 1 pages
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller By Steve Weinberg W. W. Norton 256 pages, $25.95 THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN the new film There Will Be Blood, based on Upton Sinclair's novel...
 


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