It is worth remembering that the journalist who pioneered investigative reporting at the turn of the 20 th century grew up wanting to be a scientist. Born in Western Pennsylvania in 1857, Ida Tarbell ...

ALL IN THE DAY’S WORK—Ida M. Tarbell—Macmillan ($3.50). Few contemporary periodicals have had such an exciting career as McClure’s Magazine. It launched the muckraking movement, first printed O. Henry ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Paula Treckel introduces Ida Tarbell and what influenced her to take on writing about exposing the Standard Oil Company. Historian Paula ...

OWEN D. YOUNG—Ida M. Tarbell— Macmillan ($3). Biographer Ida Minerva Tarbell’s concern with business ethics dates from way back yonder, when oil was discovered in her native Pennsylvania hills. Her ...

Ida M. (for Minerva) Tarbell never forgot what John D. Rockefeller did to her father’s dream. She was 14 years old in 1872 when Rockefeller came to Cleveland and offered the owners of local oil ...

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