Ida+Tarbell

Ida Tarbell Who is Ida? Ida is a muckraker of the early 1900's. She was also an American author from Erie County, Pennsylvania.

Ida wrote a book called __The History of the Standard Oil Company__. She first wrote the book with the help of her assistant John Siddal. Ida wanted to expose John D Rockefeller and the massive Standard Oil Company.

[] Before Ida was trying to expose the Standard Oil Company she was a teacher in her earlier life. Ida wrote the book to break up the Standard Oil Company to make prices of oil go down.

Because of Ida we don't allow industrialists to pay workers low or not give them benefits.She showed that John D was a corrupt business owner and he dumped his waste anywhere in public like water or woods.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. [|Ida Tarbell]

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