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Ida M. Tarbell : the woman who challenged big business--and won! / Emily Arnold McCully.

by McCully, Emily Arnold.

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Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2014.

Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944.

Journalists -- United States -- Biography.

279 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter one: the oil region -- Chapter two: Burning curiosity -- Chapter three: defining herself -- Chapter four: birth of the octopus -- Chapter five: an education -- Chapter six: a job and a calling -- Chapter seven: Paris -- Chapter eight: edging toward home -- Chapter ninene: McClure's -- Chapter ten: an imperial nation -- Chapter eleven: finding a mission -- Chapter twelve: muckrakers together -- Chapter thirteen: Siddall -- Chapter fourteen: an unhinged boss -- Chapter fiftfteen: the American magazine -- Chapter sixteen: materfamilias -- Chapter seventeen: the woman question -- Chapter eighteen: famous -- Chapter nineteen: business redeemed -- Chapter twenty: the final chapter.

Tarbell was the catalyst for exposing the truth behind corruption and unfair business practices. She investigated and published works about the Standard Oil Trust for McClures Magazine that informed the world of shady business dealings and skyrocketed her into the public eye. She wrote inspiring and engaging biographies on public figures, her most notable on Abraham Lincoln. Although largely forgotten as the country forged into the 20th century, her writing of the truth lives on.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

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