Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker

by Kathleen Brady

Overview

This definitive biography of Ida Tarbell, one of America's great journalists, is highly readably and widely acclaimed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822980162
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	10/15/1989
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Foreword
I BEGINNINGS
1 An Unaccommodating Child
2 Pantheistic Evolutionist
3 A Young Lady of Fine Literary Mind
II EXALTATION
4 Une Femme Travailleuse
5 The French Salon
III SUCCESS
6 The Americanization of Ida Tarbell
7 The Lady of Muckrake
8 Unexplored Land
9 A Second Crusade
10 A Bad Woman
IV VALOR
11 Workhorse
12 At Rest
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Kathleen Brady brings to life the personality of Ida Tarbell, queen of the muckrakers, who was one of the first women to break the gender gap in American journalism. . . . [An] eminently balanced biography.

New York Times

Tarbell epitomizes the achieving women who is not a feminist. With her lithe, sympathetic, factual book, Brady helps us understand how that can be. A bitter lesson; but it keeps your eyes open; also your heart.

Ms.

"Kathleen Brady brings to life the personality of Ida Tarbell, queen of the muckrakers, who was one of the first women to break the gender gap in American journalism. . . . [An] eminently balanced biography."
—New York Times

"Tarbell epitomizes the achieving women who is not a feminist. With her lithe, sympathetic, factual book, Brady helps us understand how that can be. A bitter lesson; but it keeps your eyes open; also your heart."

—Susan Dworkin, Ms. magazine

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