JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERAllan Nevins Scribner (2 vols.; $7.50).
Bright particular star of that demagogy-by-document which Roosevelt I called muckraking was Ida Minerva Tarbell. She had been brought up in the Pennsylvania oil fields when the fight between Standard Oil and the independents was hottest. Her father and brother were oil men whom Rockefeller had pushed to the wall. Miss Tarbell proved a terrible avenger. Her History of the Standard Oil Company, a perfervid, superbly documented indictment of oil-trust machinations, brought in a gusher of popular ill will which still bubbles up from time to time in anti-Rockefeller sentiment.
Historian Allan Nevins acknowledges the...
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