All in the Day's Work: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Rating | : | 4.52 (709 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0252071360 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2016-04-20 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Tarbell achieved a career as interesting and as fruitful as any writer of her time. Now she tells about it, with characteristic and sincere modesty." -- New York Times
Susan Hankin said Ida M. Tarbell was an investigative reporter with McClure's. Ida M. Tarbell was an investigative reporter with McClure's Magazine in the early twentieth century. She was the sole woman on the staff, which included notable men such as Lincoln Steffens, William Allen White and Ray Stannard Baker. In her book, "The Bully Pulpit", Doris K. Goodwin sketched a brief biography of Tarbell and other so-called Muckrakers, "All in the Day's Work". written when Tarbell was 80 years old, narrates her life in chronological . Every young woman and father-to-be should have a working knowledge of this great lady. I am disappointed that only two people have reviewed this masterpiece. This book has appeal on many levels. People who have desire to hear from "the woman on the street" during the period of American transitioning from an agrarian society to an industrial one to one controlled by investment bankers on Wall Street. It appeals to everyday people who wonder if journalism was ever an honorable profession. Many other groups, including a great book for peo. Great woman, underestimated by historians A Customer Miss Tarbell played a major role in the fall of the industry-titans, like Rockefeller and o
It was at McClure's - where, again, she was the only woman on staff - that Tarbell made her name as a determined journalist, one of the fearless brigade of truth-seekers famously chastised by Theodore Roosevelt.. An autobiography of Ida M Tarbell, the veteran investigative journalist. It looks back on her fifty-year career
Kenneth J. Ida M. Winkle is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and author of "The Politics of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio." . Tarbell is remembered for her muckraking journalism and her expose of the Standard Oil Company