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The History of the Standard Oil Company

By Ida Tarbell, Elizabeth Catte (Introduction)
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By Ida Tarbell, Elizabeth Catte (Introduction)
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The classic of muckraking journalism that exposed the inner workings of a Gilded Age business empire—with a new introduction by Elizabeth Catte.

Cleveland oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in 1870. Over the next four decades, he turned the business into a behemoth, systematically driving his competitors out of business or buying them outright. His vast fortune made him one of the nation’s most powerful men.

But his private empire was nearly undone by th...

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