Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker

by Kathleen Brady and Kathleen Brady

Book Overview

In this first definitive biography of Ida Tarbell, Kathleen Brady has written a readable and widely acclaimed book about one of America's great journalists. Ida Tarbell's generation called her "a muckraker" (the term was Theodore Roosevelt's, and he didn't intend it as a compliment), but in our time she would have been known as "an investigative reporter," with the celebrity of Woodward and Bernstein. By any description, Ida Tarbell was one of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822958074
• ISBN13: 9780822958079
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Academic, Eye-Opening

This biography is fairly academic; yet provides some excellent insights into a period of time that is, I think, somewhat ignored in historical study. I very much came to admire and understand Ida as a complicated woman dealing with what life hands to her. I also came to appreciate my historical period because of the choices I have which were not available to Ida, but oh, what she accomplished with the choices she had!