Ida M. Tarbell : the woman who challenged big business-- and won! /

Tarbell was the catalyst for exposing the truth behind corruption and unfair business practices. She investigated and published works about the Standard Oil Trust for McClure's Magazine that informed the world of shady business dealings and skyrocketed her into the public eye. She wrote inspiri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McCully, Emily Arnold
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Subjects:	Tarbell, Ida M. > (Ida Minerva), > 1857-1944 > Juvenile literature. Journalists > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature. Tarbell, Ida M. > (Ida Minerva), > 1857-1944. Journalists. Women > Biography. Biography. Juvenile works. United States.

Table of Contents:

Chapter one: the oil region
Chapter two: Burning curiosity
Chapter three: defining herself
Chapter four: birth of the octopus
Chapter five: an education
Chapter six: a job and a calling
Chapter seven: Paris
Chapter eight: edging toward home
Chapter nine: McClure's
Chapter ten: an imperial nation
Chapter eleven: finding a mission
Chapter twelve: muckrakers together
Chapter thirteen: Siddall
Chapter fourteen: an unhinged boss
Chapter fiftfteen: the American magazine
Chapter sixteen: materfamilias
Chapter seventeen: the woman question
Chapter eighteen: famous
Chapter nineteen: business redeemed
Chapter twenty: the final chapter.