Author: Ida M. Tarbell
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 160520482X
Size: 53.87 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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She is remembered today as a muckraking journalist, author of such blockbuster exposes as 1904's The History of the Standard Oil Company, which actually contributed to the corporation's breakup in 1911. But in this 1900 work, as charming as it is important, American author IDA MINERVA TARBELL (1857-1944) shows a softer side as she traces, with a laudatory and admiring spirit, the development of the character and morals of Abraham Lincoln. Begun as a project by McClure's Magazine to collect and preserve the reminiscences of friends and acquaintances of Abraham Lincoln while they were still alive, the project grew into a series of articles for the periodical, and then finally this two-volume spiritual biography of the great man, which draws on firsthand memories and other material, including original sources such speeches, letters, and telegrams. Volume I covers Lincoln's life from before he was even born, with the origins of the Lincoln family back to the early 17th century, through his education, his service in the Black Hawk War, his early dabblings in politics, his experiences and attitudes as a lawyer, and the presidential campaign of 1860.

Author: Ida Minerva Tarbell
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465583351
Size: 63.99 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 815
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Author: Mary E. Tomkins
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Size: 29.37 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Author: Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547290926
Size: 76.54 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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Follows the life of Ida Tarbell, the nineteenth-century author/journalist whose articles on the corrupt practices of John D. Rockeller and Standard Oil Company resulted in legislation against trusts.

Author: Adrian A. Paradis
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN:
Size: 59.65 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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A biography of an American author/journalist whose exposure of dishonesty in the huge Standard Oil Company was instrumental in its destruction as a trust, giving small oil companies a chance to compete.

Author: Ida M. Tarbell
Publisher: Ravenio Books
ISBN:
Size: 38.27 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
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This autobiography of the great female journalist and muckraker Ida M. Tarbell includes the following chapters: 1. My Start in Life 2. I Decide to Be a Biologist 3. A Coeducational College of the Eighties 4. A Start and a Retreat 5. A Fresh Start—A Second Retreat 6. I Fall in Love 7. A First Book—On Nothing Certain a Year 8. The Napoleon Movement of the Nineties 9. Good-Bye to France 10. Rediscovering My Country 11. A Captain of Industry Seeks My Acquaintance 12. Muckraker or Historian? 13. Off With the Old—On With the New 14. The Golden Rule in Industry 15. A New Profession 16. Women and War 17. After the Armistice 18. Gambling With Security 19. Looking Over the Country 20. Nothing New Under the Sun

Author: Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544151607
Size: 39.98 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Discover the nineteenth-century woman who became one of America’s first investigative journalists in this “lively” biography (Booklist, starred review). A YALSA-ALA Finalist for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell became widely known for her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust—a complicated business empire run by tycoon John D. Rockefeller—that 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 from a Caldecott Medal winner offers an engrossing portrait of a trailblazer in a man’s world who left her mark on America. “Well-written and thoroughly researched.” —School Library Journal Includes photos, bibliography, and index

Author: Ida Minerva Tarbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 29.40 MB
Format: PDF
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Ida M. Tarbell
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1605207616
Size: 54.61 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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"In this era of financial crisis compounded, and even perhaps enabled, by a dearth of investigative reporting, it is valuable to go back in time to learn from the work of great journalists with the courage to have taken on avaricious corporations and irresponsible business practices. "Perhaps no book demands our attention and respect as much as the one now in your hands. The unabridged edition, long out of print, of Ida Tarbell's study/expose of the history of the Standard Oil Company is an American classic, a model of careful research, detailed analysis, clear expository writing, and social mission. It has been hailed as one of the top ten of journalism's greatest hits." In Volume I, Tarbell explores: [ the birth of the oil industry [ the rise of the Standard Oil Company [ the "oil war" of 1872 [ the beginnings of the oil trust [ the first interstate commerce bill [ and more. IDA MINERVA TARBELL (1857-1944) is remembered today as a muckraking journalist, thanks to this 1904 blockbuster expos. Originally published as a series of articles in McClure's magazine, this groundbreaking work highlighted the dangers of business monopolies and contributed to the eventual breakup of Standard Oil. As modern-day muckraker Danny Schechter writes in his new introduction, exclusive to this Cosimo Classics edition. He is editor of Mediachannel.org and author of numerous books on the media, including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal (Cosimo).

Author: Ida Minerva Tarbell
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803294301
Size: 18.26 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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"I found it an inspiring thing to trace the roads these seven successive generations of Lincoln pioneers traveled, to look upon the remains of their homes, reconstruct from documents and legends their activities, judge what manner of men and women they were, the place they held among their fellows. In these wanderings the whole history of the United States seemed to unroll before me. In this Lincoln migration we have the family history of millions of our contemporaries."-Ida M. Tarbell, in her preface. Young Samuel Lincoln, who had been apprenticed as a weaver in England, arrived in the Puritan colony of Boston Bay in 1637. Ida M. Tarbell traces the generations from Samuel to Abraham Lincoln, offering rich details of character and circumstance and showing that the president's ancestors were not precisely as his detractors painted them. She takes Abraham Lincoln from the cabin of his birth to the White House, where he is introduced to a nation in crisis. Ida M. Tarbell is remembered for her muckraking journalism and her exposi of the Standard Oil Company. Kenneth J. Winkle is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and author of The Politics of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio.