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Some of the other most famous of the early muckrakers were [[Lincoln Steffens]], and [[Ray Stannard Baker]] who also worked at ''McClure's''. In 1906, Tarbell, Baker, Steffens, and editor [[John Sanborn Phillips]] left ''McClure's'' and bought ''[[American Magazine]],'' where they departed somewhat from the muckraking style and adopted a more optimistic approach. She and most of the rest of the staff left the magazine in 1915. During this time, Tarbell also contributed to ''[[Collier's Weekly]]''. |
Some of the other most famous of the early muckrakers were [[Lincoln Steffens]], and [[Ray Stannard Baker]] who also worked at ''McClure's''. In 1906, Tarbell, Baker, Steffens, and editor [[John Sanborn Phillips]] left ''McClure's'' and bought ''[[American Magazine]],'' where they departed somewhat from the muckraking style and adopted a more optimistic approach. She and most of the rest of the staff left the magazine in 1915. During this time, Tarbell also contributed to ''[[Collier's Weekly]]''. |
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Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5 1857–January 6 1944) was an author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of her day.
Biography
Ida Tarbell grew up in western Pennsylvania, where new oil fields were developed in the 1860s. She was the daughter of an oilman in Venango County.
Later, in her work, and she accused the leaders of the Standard Oil Company of using unfair tactics to put her father and many small oil companies out of business. Her famous exposé of the nefarious business practices of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust web of companies, using information gained in a series of interviews with Henry Huttleston Rogers, a key man in Standard Oil, established her as a pioneer of investigative journalism. Her work was originally published in McClure's Magazine. Her series, later published in her 1904 book, The History of the Standard Oil Company, helped draw widespread public attention to monopolistic business practices, and potential violations of U.S. anti-trust laws. It may have contributed to the court-ordered breakup of the Standard Oil Trust companies by the Federal government in 1911.
Some of the other most famous of the early muckrakers were Lincoln Steffens, and Ray Stannard Baker who also worked at McClure's. In 1906, Tarbell, Baker, Steffens, and editor John Sanborn Phillips left McClure's and bought American Magazine, where they departed somewhat from the muckraking style and adopted a more optimistic approach. She and most of the rest of the staff left the magazine in 1915. During this time, Tarbell also contributed to Collier's Weekly.
See also
- John D. Rockefeller
- Rockefeller family
- Standard Oil and its employees
- South Improvement Company
- Henry H. Rogers
- McClure's
External links
- Harvard University Library Open Collections Program. Women Working, 1870-1930, Ida Tarbell (1857–1944). A full-text searchable online database with complete access to publications written by Ida Tarbell.
- The Ida Tarbell Home Page
- American Experience: The Rockefellers
- National Women's Hall of Fame - Ida Tarbell
- The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell
- Works by Ida M. Tarbell at Project Gutenberg
- Biography of Ida Tarbell found in Gale Group
- Ida Tarbell and the "Business of Being a Woman" by by Paula Treckel