Tarbell, Ida (1957-1944)
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 on...
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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, struggl...
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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...
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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 1...
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Tarbell, Ida (1957-1944)
Tarbell, Ida M.
Ida Minerva Tarbell
Ida M(inerva) Tarbell