Ida M. Tarbell is one of the well known Lincoln writers. Some of her other books on this subject are "He Knew Lincoln," "Life of Abraham Lincoln," "In Lincoln's Chair." Her material is selected first hand, having made a "pilgrimage" in 1922 for the purpose of collecting material for...
In this frank and informative autobiography, the veteran investigative journalist Ida M. Tarbell looks back on her nearly fifty-year career. At the age of eighty-two, one of the original muckrakers writes with her characteristic candor about a life spent defying categories and challenging ...
1909, Ida Tarbell of The American Magazine wrote to Gen. F. C. Ainsworth, the adjutant general: "I am anxious to know whether your department has any record of the number of women who enlisted and served in the Civil War, or has it any record of any women who were in the service?
colleagues—includingIda Tarbell,Ray Stannard Baker, and David Graham Phillips—wrote investigativemagazinestories in a literary, rhetorically persuasive way. U.S. Pres.Theodore Rooseveltin 1906 derisively called their type of workmuckraking. The social and literary ambitions of those first “new ...
1909, Ida Tarbell of The American Magazine wrote to Gen. F. C. Ainsworth, the adjutant general: "I am anxious to know whether your department has any record of the number of women who enlisted and served in the Civil War, or has it any record of any women who were in the service?
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. —George Burns 173 I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future. —Jomo Kenyatta ...
These processes are growing at a higher rate than the rest of the human diseases due to the aging of the population. The distribution of years of life lost due to disability from neurological diseases is age-dependent, increasing notably after 50 years [1]. Contrary to the opinion that the...
Notable muckrakers included Jacob Rils, who in 1890 exposed the horrors of New York City slum life. In 1902, Lincoln Steffens brought city corruption to light with a magazine article titled “Tweed Days in St. Louis.” Ida Tarbell put her energy into exposing the antics of John D. Rockefel...
In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man. —Ida Tarbell ...
Ida Tarbell, incognito mode, informal economy, information retrieval, invention of the telescope, Jeff Bezos, John Perry Barlow, John von Neumann, Joseph Schumpeter, lake wobegon effect, large denomination, longitudinal study, loose coupling, machine translation, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Metcalf...