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How a female investigative journalist brought down the world’s greatest tycoon and broke up the Standard Oil monopoly. Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force ... read more

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First Sentence

Ida Minerva Tarbell grew up as a child of the oil fields.

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  1. Steve Weinberg (Author)
 

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