Citizen Reporters

[David Lockmiller]

Just wanted to make all aware that a new book on Tarbell is coming out in February. It's called Citizen Reporters. There is a review of it in the Atlantic.

Here is a link to the review.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...rs/603055/

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Rob

A similarity to Lincoln:

Tarbell had grown up in northwestern Pennsylvania, where she watched as her father and their neighbors—ordinary people making a living as independent oil producers—were forced to sell off or go under when Rockefeller struck a crooked deal with the railroads: Trains would carry his petroleum cheaply, while gouging his competitors. “There was born in me a hatred of privilege,” she wrote.

Additional related material found elsewhere:

The mention of John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company brought forth special enmity. The teenaged Ida listened carefully to the talk at the anti-monopoly gatherings. She knew about the pleas by her father and his colleagues to state and federal legislators. She watched her father turn from an easygoing companion into a somber and even depressed man. She would later say, "There was born in me a hatred of privilege - privilege of any sort.