“Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.”

About Ida Tarbell

Author • American

Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading 'muckrakers' of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pioneering the...