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Ida Tarbell

U.S. journalist who wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company.

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1857–1944
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Ida M. Tarbell
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  1. 1857–1944 Ida Tarbell
  2. 1904 Ida Tarbell authored The History of the Standard Oil Company
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  1. All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography, Ida M. Tarbell, Macmillan (text via Project Gutenberg #63754), 1939. Self-published
    We were neither apologists nor critics, only journalists intent on discovering what had gone into the making of this most perfect of all monopolies.
  2. The History of the Standard Oil Company (2 vols.), Ida M. Tarbell, McClure, Phillips & Co. (text via Project Gutenberg #60692), 1904. Scholarship & press
    There is in existence just such documentary material for a history of the Standard Oil Company as there is for a history of the Civil War or the French Revolution
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