TARBELL, IDA MINERVA

1857–1944, American author, b. Erie co., Pa., grad. Allegheny College (B.A., 1880; M.A., 1883). One of the leading muckrakers, she is remembered for her investigations of industry published in McClure's magazine. Some of them were collected in her History of the Standard Oil Company (1904). She also wrote Life of Abraham Lincoln (1900), other books on Lincoln, and biographies of Elbert H. Gary (1925) and Owen D. Young (1932). Her economic studies culminated in The Nationalizing of Business, 1878–1898 (1936).

See her autobiography, All in the Day's Work (1939).

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All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography
Book by Ida M. Tarbell; Macmillan, 1939
Subjects: Fiction, Tarbell, Ida M--(Ida Minerva)--1857-1944
Esther Ann, McCullough Tarbell and Ida Minerva Tarbell, November 5, 1858
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Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron
Book by Edward N. Akin; University Press of Florida, 1992
Subjects: Businesspeople--Florida--Biography, Capitalists And Financiers--Florida--Biography, Flagler, Henry Morrison--1830-1913, Florida--History--1865-, Rockefeller, John D--(John Davison)--1839-1937, Standard Oil Company--History
...98 Sherman Antitrust Act, 104 , 105 Shourds, Ida Alice. See Flagler, Ida Alice Shourds Smith, A. V. S., 218 -19 Smith...192 , 211 Tank Car Trust of Philadelphia, 61 Tarbell, Ida Minerva, x -xi, 104 -6; on Flagler, 101 , 203...
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Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism - Vol. 6
Includes: Slavery - Zoot Suit Riots
Book by Susan Auerbach; Marshall Cavendish, 1994
Subjects: Ethnology--United States--Encyclopedias, Multiculturalism--United States--Encyclopedias, Pluralism (Social Sciences)--United States--Encyclopedias, United States--Ethnic Relations--Encyclopedias, United States--Race Relations--Encyclopedias
...1986), translated and edited by David J. Weber. Tarbell, Ida Minerva (Nov. 5, I 857, Erie County, Pa.- Jan. 6...Journalist and historian. In 1891, while in Paris, Tarbell studied the role of women in the French Revolution...
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Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism, Supplement - Vol. 8
Includes: Mfume, Kweisi - Wyatt vs. Strickley
Book by Susan Auerbach; Marshall Cavendish, 1998
Subjects: Ethnology--United States--Encyclopedias, Multiculturalism--United States--Encyclopedias, Pluralism (Social Sciences)--United States--Encyclopedias, United States--Ethnic Relations--Encyclopedias, United States--Race Relations--Encyclopedias
...issues* Surrogate mothers Tailhook scandal Tan, Amy Tarbell, Ida Minerva Teenage pregnancy Temple, Shirley Terrell, Mary Church...Services Weeks v. Southern Bell Wellesley College Wells, Ida Bell Wharton, Edith Wheatley, Phillis White Ribbon...
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Men of Wealth: The Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day
Book by John T. Flynn; Simon and Schuster, 1941
Subjects: Biography
...Takateru, 288 Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de, Prince de Benevent, 345 Talmage, Thomas DeWitt, 411 Tarbell, Ida Minerva, 445 Tarpon Club of Texas, 246 Tawney, 89 Technics and Civilization Mumford , 155 Teller, Henry Moore, 403...
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Autobiographies by Women Journalists: an Annotated Bibliography
Journal article by Linda Steiner; Journalism History, Vol. 23, 1997
Subjects: Autobiographies, Bibliographic literature, History, Reporters, Women
...Krushchev, Nasser, and Nehru. Tarbell, Ida Minerva. All in the Days Work. Recollections...New York: Macmillan, 1939. Tarbell spent 1883-91 at the Chautauquan...her own weekly paper. Wells, Ida B. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography...
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Kilmer's Promotion of Poe
Journal article by Burton R. Pollin; Southern Quarterly, Vol. 44, 2006
Subjects: Anthologies, Book reviews, Essays, Novels, Poetry
...OUR RICH AUTHORS MAKE CHEAP LITERATURE / Ida M. Tarbell Laments Tendency of Some of Our Modern Writers...New York Times, February 13, 1916, p. 15. Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857-1944) Ida M. Tarbell extensively explored big business...
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Demonstrating Neutrality: The Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Evolution of Public Administration, 1927-1936
Journal article by Alasdair Roberts; Public Administration Review, Vol. 54, 1994
Subjects: Charitable trusts--History, Public administration--History, Rockefeller Foundation--Political activity
...said (Flynn, 1932, p. 393); Ida May Tarbell (1904), one of the first muckrakers...Social Sciences in the 1920s." Minerva vol. 19, no. 3. pp. 347...10, no. 4, pp. 75-76. Tarbell, Ida M., 1904. The History of the...


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Remembering Ida Tarbell: Standard Oil Investigation Set out to Capture an Era-and Readers
Magazine article by Kathleen Brady; Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The IRE Journal, Vol. 31, January 2008
Subjects: Business ethics, Journalism, Journalists, Scandals, Tarbell, Ida Minerva (1857-1944)
Remembering Ida Tarbell: Standard Oil Investigation Set out to Capture an Era-and Readers...work, of course, was The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida M. Tarbell, the first installment of which appeared in November 1902 and ultimately...


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Tarbell, Ida Minerva
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TARBELL, IDA MINERVA 1857 1944, American author, b. Erie co., Pa., grad. Allegheny College (B.A., 1880; M.A., 1883). One of the...


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