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Ida Tarbell

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Noun1.Ida Tarbell - United States writer remembered for her muckraking investigations into industries in the early 20th century (1857-1944)


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Louis, and elsewhere; Ida Tarbell showed how the Standard Oil Trust abused its power; Jacob Riis portrayed the misery of the New York City slums, writing and taking photographs (many of them staged) to tell his story.
In The Worm in the Apple, he seeks to emulate The History of Standard Oil, the legendary effort by Ida Tarbell that helped to usher in the antitrust movement a century ago.
From an article in The Wall Street Journal on the environmental group Project Underground, which quoted Ida Tarbell, the famous muckraking journalist, in a press release opposing the merger of Exxon and Mobil Oil companies: "The group .
 
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