Ida Tarbell’s most famous work is The History of the Standard Oil Company, which led to the 1911 Supreme Court ruling that broke up Standard Oil. In 1999 the piece was named one of the most important works of journalism of the 20th century. Tarbell was one of a group of innovative investigative journalists who were dubbed “muckrakers” by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt.
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