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Apr 10, 2024 · 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.
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Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism. [1]
Mar 19, 2021 · Ida Tarbell died in Connecticut in 1944 at the age of 86 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Titusville. She will be remembered as the muckraker who took on John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller, despite her efforts, remained one of the richest men in the world until his death in 1937.
Jan 6, 2022 · Ida Tarbell became one of the most famous "muckraking" journalists in 19th century America, thanks largely to her investigation of the Standard Oil Company.
Ida Tarbell (November 5, 1857–January 6, 1944) was a critic of corporate power and muckraking journalist. Famous for her exposés of corporate America and for biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Tarbell was added to the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2000.
Author of The History of the Standard Oil Company, an investigation into the business practices of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, Ida Tarbell would become the torchbearer of the intrepid ...
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Jul 17, 2023 · An investigative journalist, Ida Tarbell's 19-part exposé of Standard Oil in McClure's magazine established her as one of the top muckrakers of 20th-century America.
