It is worth remembering that the journalist who pioneered investigative reporting at the turn of the 20 th century grew up wanting to be a scientist. Born in Western Pennsylvania in 1857, Ida Tarbell ...
Ida M. (for Minerva) Tarbell never forgot what John D. Rockefeller did to her father’s dream. She was 14 years old in 1872 when Rockefeller came to Cleveland and offered the owners of local oil ...
Ida Tarbell, a leading muckraking journalist at the turn of the 20th century, spent a decade and a half writing for McClure’s magazine. (PhotoQuest/Getty Images) Review by Dennis Drabelle S.S. McClure ...
TITUSVILLE — The house on East Main Street is known as the childhood home of Ida Tarbell, a famous "muckraker" who pioneered investigative journalism. However, it was also home to painter Sarah ...
THE MUCKRAKERS (449 pp.)—Edited by Arthur and Lila Weinberg—Simon & Schuster ($7.50). Collectors of old scandals are always welcome to dinner, even though it often happens that their only tales are ...
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