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Ida M. Tarbell : The Woman Who Challenged Big Business-and Won!

by Emily Arnold McCully

Synopsis

Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell was one of the first investigative journalists and probably the most influential in her time.Her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust, a complicated business empire run by John D. Rockefeller, revealed to readers the underhanded, even illegal practices that had led to Rockefeller's success. Rejecting the term "muckraker" to describe her profession, she went on to achieve remarkable prominence for a woman of her generation as a writer and shaper of public opinion. This biography offers an engrossing portrait of atrailblazer in a man's world who left her mark on theAmerican consciousness. Notes, bibliography, index ."

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Book Information

Copyright year 2014
ISBN-13 9780547290928
ISBN-10 0547290926
Class Copyright
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Subject Juvenile Nonfiction
File Size 108 MB
Number of Pages 288
Length of Recording 8
Shelf No. KZ441
Grade Range 7-
Ages 12
Lexile 1120L