The History of the Standard Oil Company Vol. I (in Two Volumes)

In this era of financial crisis compounded and even perhaps enabled by a dearth of investigative reporting it is valuable to go back in time to learn from the work of great journalists with the courage to have taken on avaricious corporations and irresponsible business practices. Perhaps no book demands our attention and respect as much as the one now in your hands. The unabridged edition long out of print of Ida Tarbells study/expose of the history of the Standard Oil Company is an American classic a model of careful research detailed analysis clear expository writing and social mission. It has been hailed as one of the top ten of journalisms greatest hits. In Volume I Tarbell explores: - the birth of the oil industry - the rise of the Standard Oil Company - the oil war of 1872 - the beginnings of the oil trust - the first interstate commerce bill - and more. IDA MINERVA TARBELL (1857-1944) is remembered today as a muckraking journalist thanks to this 1904 blockbuster exposé. Originally published as a series of articles in McClures magazine this groundbreaking work highlighted the dangers of business monopolies and contributed to the eventual breakup of Standard Oil. As modern-day muckraker Danny Schechter writes in his new introduction exclusive to this Cosimo Classics edition. He is editor of Mediachannel.org and author of numerous books on the media including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal (Cosimo).