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Ida M. Tarbell The Woman Who Challenged Big Business - and Won 9780547290928

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Product Description : 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 Rockefellers 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 a trailblazer in a mans world who left her mark on the American consciousness Notes bibliography index