| Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller Contributor(s): Weinberg, Steven (Author), Ward, Pam (Read by) |
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ISBN: 143321220X ISBN-13: 9781433212208 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $81.00 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: This is the story of how a pioneer female investigative journalist brought down Rockefellers monopolistic Standard Oil company, prompting the Supreme Courts landmark antitrust decision in 1911. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - History | United States - 20th Century - Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 6.82" W x 5.98" (0.72 lbs) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 |
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| Publisher Description: Long before the rise of megacorporations like Walmart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business history. Undaunted by the ruthless power of its owner, John D. Rockefeller, a fearless and ambitious reporter named Ida Minerva Tarbell confronted the company known simply as "The Trust." Through her peerless fact gathering and devastating prose, Tarbell pioneered the new practice of investigative journalism. Her shocking discoveries about Standard Oil and Rockefeller led to a dramatic confrontation that culminated in the landmark 1911 Supreme Court antitrust decision, forever altering the landscape of modern American industry. Based on extensive research, Taking on the Trust is a vivid and dramatic history of the Progressive Era with powerful resonance for the early twenty-first century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Weinberg, Steven: - Steven Weinberg received the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in unifying two of the fundamental forces of nature, and in 1991 he was awarded the National Medal of Science at the White House. His earlier prize-winning book The First Three Minutes is the classic account of the "Big Bang," the modern theory of the origin of the universe. Among his other books are The Theory of Subatomic Particles and Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity. Steven Weinberg is a member of the Royal Society of London as well as the US National Academy of Sciences, and has been awarded numerous honorary degrees, most recently from Columbia University and the Universities of Salamanca and Padua. Ward, Pam: -Pam Ward, an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, found her true calling reading books for the blind and physically handicapped for the Library of Congress' Talking Books program. The fact that she can work with Blackstone Audio from the beauty of the mountains of Southern Oregon is an unexpected bonus. |