Ida Tarbell | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-04

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Ida Tarbell


00:02:57 1 Early life and education
00:09:54 2 Early career
00:14:05 3 Paris in the 1890s
00:18:14 4 McClure's Magazine
00:20:17 4.1 Napoleon Bonaparte
00:22:33 4.2 Abraham Lincoln
00:25:59 4.3 McClure's Editor
00:28:03 5 Standard Oil
00:35:41 6 The American Magazine
00:38:59 7 Women's Suffrage
00:43:38 8 World War I
00:46:13 9 Later career
00:49:21 10 Death and legacy
00:50:29 11 Family
00:51:10 12 Writing style and methodology
00:53:52 13 Representation in other media
00:54:25 14 Published Works
00:54:35 14.1 Books
00:56:54 14.2 Selected Articles
00:59:54 15 See also



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Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism. Born in Pennsylvania at the onset of the oil boom, Tarbell is best known for her 1904 book, The History of the Standard Oil Company. The book was published as a series of articles in McClure's Magazine from 1902 to 1904. This one masterpiece of investigative journalism would bring about the dissolution of Standard Oil as a monopoly and lead to the Clayton Antitrust Act. Her book would also lead to the Hepburn Act in 1906 to oversee the railroads, the 1910 Mann-Elkins Act which gave the Interstate Commerce Commission power over oil rates, and the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 1914.Tarbell also wrote several biographies over the course of her career which spanned 64 years. She wrote biographies on Madame Roland and Napoleon Bonaparte. Tarbell believed that "the Truth and motivations of powerful human beings could be discovered. That Truth, she became convinced, could be conveyed in such a way as to precipitate meaningful social change." She wrote numerous books and works on Abraham Lincoln including ones that focused on his early life and career. After her exposé on Standard Oil she wrote biographies on businessmen Elbert H. Gary, chairman of U. S. Steel, as well as Owen D. Young, president of General Electric.
A prolific writer and lecturer, Tarbell was known for taking complex subjects—the oil industry, tariffs, labor practices—and breaking them down into informative and easy to understand articles. Her articles drove circulation at McClure’s Magazine and The American Magazine and many of her books were popular with the general American public. After a successful career as both writer and editor for McClure’s Magazine, Tarbell left with several other editors to buy and publish The American Magazine. Tarbell also traveled to all then 48 states on the lecture circuit and spoke on subjects including the evils of war, world peace, American politics, trusts, tariffs, labor practices, and women’s issues.
Tarbell took part in professional organizations and served on two Presidential committees. Tarbell helped form the Authors’ League (now the Author’s Guild) and was President of the Pen and Brush Club for 30 years. During World War I, she served on the President Woodrow Wilson’s Women’s Committee on the Council of National Defense. After the war, she served on President Warren G. Harding’s 1921 Unemployment Conference.
Tarbell, who never married, is often considered a feminist by her actions but maintained views on women’s suffrage which were controversial and may have tarnished her overall legacy.