Taking on the Trust: How Ida Tarbell Brought Down John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
How a female investigative journalist brought down the world's greatest tycoon and broke up the Standard Oil monopoly.Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business history. Undaunted by the ruthless power of its owner, John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), a fearless and ambitious reporter named Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857-1944) confronted the company known simply as The Trust.” Through her peerless fact gathering and devastating prose, Tarbell, a muckraking reporter at McClure's magazine, pioneered the new practice of inves…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-07253-2
- EAN: 9780393072532
- Produktnummer: 34245834
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 490 KB
Über den Autor
The author of six books, Steve Weinberg has been a longtime board member of the National Book Critics Circle and currently teaches investigative journalism at the University of Missouri Journalism School. He lives in Columbia, Missouri.
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