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Ida M. Tarbell : the woman who challenged big business-- and won! /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]Copyright date: �2014Description: 279 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780547290928
  • 0547290926
  • 9780605856059
  • 0605856052
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 070.92 B 23
LOC classification:
  • PN4874.T23 M33 2014
Contents:
The oil region -- Burning curiosity -- Defining herself -- The birth of the octopus -- An education -- A job and a calling -- Paris -- Edging toward home -- McClure's -- An imperial nation -- Finding a mission -- Muckrakers together -- Siddall -- An unhinged boss -- The American magazine -- Materfamilias -- The woman question -- Famous -- Business redeemed -- The final chapter.
Summary: Tarbell was the catalyst for exposing the truth behind corruption and unfair business practices. She investigated and published works about the Standard Oil Trust for McClure's Magazine that informed the world of shady business dealings and skyrocketed her into the public eye. She wrote inspiring and engaging biographies on public figures, her most notable on Abraham Lincoln. Although largely forgotten as the country forged into the 20th century, her writing of the truth lives on.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
JB JB Chamberlin Free Public Library Juvenile Nonfiction JB TAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000531941

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index.

The oil region -- Burning curiosity -- Defining herself -- The birth of the octopus -- An education -- A job and a calling -- Paris -- Edging toward home -- McClure's -- An imperial nation -- Finding a mission -- Muckrakers together -- Siddall -- An unhinged boss -- The American magazine -- Materfamilias -- The woman question -- Famous -- Business redeemed -- The final chapter.

Tarbell was the catalyst for exposing the truth behind corruption and unfair business practices. She investigated and published works about the Standard Oil Trust for McClure's Magazine that informed the world of shady business dealings and skyrocketed her into the public eye. She wrote inspiring and engaging biographies on public figures, her most notable on Abraham Lincoln. Although largely forgotten as the country forged into the 20th century, her writing of the truth lives on.

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