Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker
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Book Overview
In this first definitive biography of Ida Tarbell, Kathleen Brady has written a readable and widely acclaimed book about one of America's great journalists. Ida Tarbell's generation called her "a muckraker" (the term was Theodore Roosevelt's, and he didn't intend it as a compliment), but in our time she would have been known as "an investigative reporter," with the celebrity of Woodward and Bernstein. By any description, Ida Tarbell was one of the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822958074
ISBN13:9780822958079
Release Date:September 1989
Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:0.89 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
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Academic, Eye-Opening
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This biography is fairly academic; yet provides some excellent insights into a period of time that is, I think, somewhat ignored in historical study. I very much came to admire and understand Ida as a complicated woman dealing with what life hands to her. I also came to appreciate my historical period because of the choices I have which were not available to Ida, but oh, what she accomplished with the choices she had!
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