Ida Tarbell's The History Of The Standard Oil Company: John D.

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Ida Tarbell, one of the first "muckrakers," as they receive the name from Theodore Roosevelt, agreed that journalists should write for truth. Her landmark book “The History of the Standard Oil Company depicted the way John D. Rockefeller's Company gained a monopoly, over the oil industry. Her writing was one of the greatest serials even in the wide spreading muckraking magazines. The book made her famous and established a model for journalism that is still followed today. Why Ida focused on exposing the “monopoly monster” --Standard Oil Company has to do with her childhood experiences. Ida Minerva Tarbell was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1857. Her parents, Esther and Franklin Tarbell, were schoolteachers. But after oil

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