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by Emily Arnold McCully (Author)
Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell was one of the first investigative journalists and probably the most influential in her time. Her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust, a complicated business empire run by John D. Rockefeller, revealed to readers the underhanded, even illegal practices that had led to Rockefeller's success. Rejecting the term "muckraker" to describe her profession, she went on to achieve remarkable prominence for a woman of her generation as a writer and shaper of public opinion. This biography offers an engrossing portrait of a trailblazer in a man's world who left her mark on the American consciousness. Notes, bibliography, index.
Author Biography
Emily Arnold McCully is known primarily as an artist. The illustrator of more than forty books for young readers, she received the Caldecott Medal for Mirette on the High Wire. She is also passionate about history, particularly on feminist subjects, and makes her YA debut with this biography. She divides her time between Chatham, New York, and New York City.
