The History of the Standard Oil Company is a 1904 book by journalist Ida Tarbell. It is an exposé about the Standard Oil Company, run at the time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, the richest figure in American history.
Ida Tarbell’s book "The History of the Standard Oil Company" do unveiled the unfair monopolistic practices carried out by John Rockefeller to constitute his predominance in the oil business.
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Ida Tarbell was an American professor, writer and journalist, considered one of the main "muckrakers" of the Progressive Era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and a pioneer of investigative journalism.
She is known for her research on John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company, published in series by McClure's Magazine from 1902 to 1904; his investigations exposed the unfair monopolistic practices practiced by the company until the Supreme Court of the United States decided to dissolve the monopoly.
