All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

By Ida M. Tarbell
Michael Caine
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Length15h 34m

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This is an autobiography of Ida Minerva Tarbell, an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism. Tarbell is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which contributed to the dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly and helped usher in the Hepburn Act of 1906, the Mann-Elkins Act, the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Clayton Antitrust Act.

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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length15 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 10, 2023
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1ILLUSTRATIONS
1211 A CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY SEEKS MY ACQUAINTANCE
21 MY START IN LIFE
1312 MUCKRAKER OR HISTORIAN?
32 I DECIDE TO BE A BIOLOGIST
1413 OFF WITH THE OLD—ON WITH THE NEW
43 A COEDUCATIONAL COLLEGE OF THE EIGHTIES
1514 THE GOLDEN RULE IN INDUSTRY
54 A START AND A RETREAT
1615 A NEW PROFESSION
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65 A FRESH START—A SECOND RETREAT
1716 WOMEN AND WAR
76 I FALL IN LOVE
1817 AFTER THE ARMISTICE
87 A FIRST BOOK—ON NOTHING CERTAIN A YEAR
1918 GAMBLING WITH SECURITY
98 THE NAPOLEON MOVEMENT OF THE NINETIES
2019 LOOKING OVER THE COUNTRY
109 GOOD-BYE TO FRANCE
2120 NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
1110 REDISCOVERING MY COUNTRY

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