The history of the Standard Oil Company
By: Ida M. Tarbell ; briefer version edited by David M. Chalmers.
Contributors: Chalmers, David Mark.
Series: American perspectives; Harper torchbooks; University library ;; TB3071N
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Standard Oil Company.
Description: Tarbell's story, serialized by McClure's from 1902 to 1904, recounts the history of John D. Rockefeller's company. The first major industrial monopoly in the U.S., Standard Oil was, in 1901, the largest corporation in the country, and at its peak controlled as much as eighty-five percent of oil refining in America. But with all his wealth and power, Rockefeller could not protect himself from Tarbell. Her story of the company, which became a model for investigative journalists, placed the blame for increasingly commercialized American ideals and materialistic values at Rockefeller's doorstep.