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Life of Elbert H.Gary: The Story of Steel

Ida Minerva Tarbell

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1926. This work is the biographical account of Elbert H. Gary, lawyer and businessman. Gary was a judge and president of Federal Steel Company, as well as being instrumental in organizing the United States Steel Corporation. He was known for improving workers' wages and conditions, however his opposition to unions lead to the steel strike of 1919-1920. Gary, Indiana was named for him. Profusely illustrated.

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Ida Minerva Tarbell

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Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism". She wrote many notable magazine series and biographies. She is best-known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was listed as No. 5 in a 1999 list by the New York Times of the top 100 works of 20th-century American journalism.[1] She became the first person to take on Standard Oil. She began her work on The Standard after her editors at McClure's Magazine called for a story on one of the trusts.

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