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All in the Day's Work: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
An autobiography of Ida M Tarbell, the veteran investigative journalist. It looks back on her fifty-year career. It was at McClure's - where, again, she was the only woman on staff - that Tarbell made her name as a determined journalist, one of the fearless brigade of truth-seekers famously chastised by Theodore Roosevelt.
Paperback
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448 pages
Published
June 18th 2003
by University of Illinois Press
(first published 1975)
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I read it for a book club. Fascinating woman. It started slow and didn't pick up until page 150. I think I would enjoy a biography more. Ida is too modest
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Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism". She wrote many notable magazine series and biographies. She is best-known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was listed as No. 5 in a 1999 list by the New York Times of th
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