All in the Day’s Work: An Autobiography by Ida M. Tarbell

Description

No reporter did more to shape American journalism than Ida M. Tarbell, and this is her own account of how it felt to do it. Born in a log house in Pennsylvania in 1857, she grew up in the oil region, watched her father’s business squeezed by the Standard Oil trust, and — decades later — would write the exposures that finally shook that trust to pieces. She tells the story as plain narrative: the early ambition to become a biologist, the discovery of her real subject in people and institutions, and the long apprenticeship between.

The second half of the memoir follows her into McClure’s, the great magazine that set muckrakers loose upon the age, and through the books and campaigns that made her famous and widely feared in boardrooms. Tarbell writes without self-importance, warm about her allies and unfailingly fair toward her enemies. A remarkable record of the birth of modern investigative journalism, remembered from inside.

Why readers still come back to it

• The first great woman reporter tells her own story in her own voice
• First-hand account of the Standard Oil investigation’s making
• A warm portrait of the golden age of American magazine journalism

About this DodaBooks edition

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