Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business --- and Won!
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Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business --- and Won!
July 2014
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.
Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business --- and Won!
- Publication Date: July 8, 2014
- Genres: Biography, History, Nonfiction, Young Adult 12+
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Clarion Books
- ISBN-10: 0547290926
- ISBN-13: 9780547290928
