![]() Essentially, the book largely succeeded in bringing sanity to the American market by hastening the breakup of these monopolies (Tarbell 12). ![]() Although Ida Tarbell started her writing career with McClure’s magazine, her writing later influenced many upcoming journalists to focus on investigative journalism with a view to expose the deals of large companies that were attempting to introduce industrial monopoly. ![]() ![]() The book was basically an expose of the activities of a typical capitalist company run by John Rockefeller, the Standard Company. According to the literature available, The History of the Standard Oil Company was written by a 19 th century journalist, Ida Tarbell. It establishes how investigative journalism can be used to effect fundamental changes in the society. This paper investigates the literature that is available on The History of the Standard Oil Company.
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