Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
by Steve Weinberg
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0393049353
- ISBN 13
- 9780393049350
- Seller
-
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Item Price
€71.06€63.95
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Norton, 2008. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. ***Signed by Author*** Two-toned tan paper over boards first edition hardcover with silver lettering to spine in a like new dust jacket. DJ is not price clipped. 8vo. 6.5 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches) Author's signature on the title page. Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photo plate. Includes a bibliographic essay and select bibliography and an index. 320 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. How a female investigative journalist brought down the world's greatest tycoon and broke up the Standard Oil monopoly.
Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business history. Undaunted by the ruthless power of its owner, John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), a fearless and ambitious reporter named Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857-1944) confronted the company known simply as "The Trust." Through her peerless fact gathering and devastating prose, Tarbell, a muckraking reporter at McClure's magazine, pioneered the new practice of investigative journalism. Her shocking discoveries about Standard Oil and Rockefeller led, inexorably, to a dramatic confrontation during the opening decade of the twentieth century that culminated in the landmark 1911 Supreme Court antitrust decision breaking up the monopolies and forever altering the landscape of modern American industry. Based on extensive research in the Tarbell and Rockefeller archives, Taking on the Trust is a vivid and dramatic history of the Progressive Era with powerful resonance for the first decades of the twenty-first century.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. How a female investigative journalist brought down the world's greatest tycoon and broke up the Standard Oil monopoly.
Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business history. Undaunted by the ruthless power of its owner, John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), a fearless and ambitious reporter named Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857-1944) confronted the company known simply as "The Trust." Through her peerless fact gathering and devastating prose, Tarbell, a muckraking reporter at McClure's magazine, pioneered the new practice of investigative journalism. Her shocking discoveries about Standard Oil and Rockefeller led, inexorably, to a dramatic confrontation during the opening decade of the twentieth century that culminated in the landmark 1911 Supreme Court antitrust decision breaking up the monopolies and forever altering the landscape of modern American industry. Based on extensive research in the Tarbell and Rockefeller archives, Taking on the Trust is a vivid and dramatic history of the Progressive Era with powerful resonance for the first decades of the twenty-first century.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 201384
- Title
- Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
- Author
- Steve Weinberg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0393049353
- ISBN 13
- 9780393049350
- Publisher
- Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Journalism, Women in history, Gilded Age, Standard Oil, Rockefeller family, investigational journalism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Journalism;
Terms of Sale
The Anthropologists Closet
We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard providing accurate book descriptions. If for any reason you are not satisfied we will offer a refund and free return shipping.
About the Seller
The Anthropologists Closet
Biblio member since 2022
Des Moines, Iowa
About The Anthropologists Closet
The Anthropologists Closet is a small mother-daughter-owned online bookstore. We offer a wide range of academic non-fiction books, a large collection of art catalogs, signed books, and an extensive history and military collection. We uphold high ethical standards and are dedicated to ensuring that our listings are accurate and that our customers are satisfied. Our books are packaged with care in a secure book box mailer with tracking. We offer full refunds and free return shipping. Satisfaction guaranteed!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...