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Lädt ... Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller (2008)von Steve Weinberg
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 5788. Taking on the Trust The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller, by Steve Weinberg (read 29 Apr 2022) This is a 2008 book telling of Ida Tarbell and her famed muckraking study of Rockefeller. It tells of the life of both Tarbell and Rockefeller and does a fair job. The author did much research and tells of both lives but since it is a book of only 289 pages it is not very comprehensive. The author is apparently not a lawyer (nor was Tarbell) and so the illegality of Rockefeller's tactics is not made very clear--though there is no doubt of ruthless behavior in amassing his fortune. I remember learning of Rockefeller's death in 1937, the headline in the paper reading "John D. Will be buried Thursday' and asked "Who is John D. Will?' to my older sibling's scorn at my not recognizing the headline referred to Rockefeller. (Hey, I was only 8.) ( ) Tariffs, corruption, environmental destruction, overzealous oligarchs who hoard and build their power by squeezing from others and then scattering the crumbs down to us through public works. It might sound like the 21st century United States, but this story is about the late nineteenth and early 20th century. I've been reading and researching Ida Tarbell and this book is not only an invaluable resource but also an interesting read. I like the author's use of a "dual" biography. The juxtaposition sets the stage for Tarbell's takedown of Standard Oil by telling both her life story as well as John D. Rockefeller--who was where doing what and when. It gives a bigger picture of America in the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. Oh, where is our Teddy Roosevelt? Ida once described Roosevelt as a "boy on skates." He gave her the term, "muckraker." This was a really captivating book detailing Ida Tarbell's life, her journalism career and her exposé on Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller. It also contains a lot of interesting biographical details on Rockefeller as well. I wasn't really sure what I was getting into exactly when I got this book, but I was really pleased with the book. I expected a bit more about the aftermath of the exposé and supreme court rulings on Standard Oil and how that (briefly) changed American capitalism, but it was really more focused on Ida Tarbell, and I found her life to be very fascinating. The chapter on the exposé is almost anti-climatic, but I didn't mind. Ida Tarbell comes across as an amazing woman, and I was rooting for her throughout the whole book. I've never read about such a fiercely independent woman living in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and I really liked how she was determined to live her life and do her own thing without getting married or having children, a pretty radical thing to do in those days. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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