History of Standard Oil: Volume 1
Author: first_name: Ida M.
last_name: Tarbell
Language: English
Year: 1904

 The History of the Standard Oil Company is a book written by journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904. It was an exposé of the Standard Oil Company, run at that time by oil tycoon <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller" rel="nofollow">John D. Rockefeller</a> the richest figure in America's history. Originally serialized in 19 parts in McClure's magazine, the book was a seminal example of muckraking, and inspired many other journalists to write about trusts, large businesses that (in th