Ida Tarbell’s investigative exposé The History of the Standard Oil Company, published in McClure’s Magazine between 1902 and 1904, led to the 1911 Supreme Court ruling that ordered Standard Oil to divest its major holdings. Tarbell was one of a group of investigative journalists who were dubbed “muckrakers” by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt.
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