Interview with ida tarbell biography

Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, – January 6, ) was a teacher, an author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of her day, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism." She wrote many notable magazine series and biographies.

She is best-known for her book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was listed number five among the top works of twentieth-century American journalism by the New York Times in Her writing on the oil industry led to the break-up of Standard Oil and to the passing of antitrust laws in the United States of America.

Tarbell also wrote several books for women, and supported the peace movement after World War I.

Youth and education

Ida Tarbell was born in a log cabin in Erie County, Pennsylvania.^[1] She grew up in the western portion of the state where new oil fields were developed in the s.

She was the daughter of Frank Tarbell, who built wooden oil storage tanks and later became an oil pr