Ida Tarbell : portrait of a muckraker /

Epitomizes the achieving woman who is not a feminist. Her generation called her a "muckraker," but in our time she would have been known as "an investigative reporter." She achieved more than almost any woman of her generation, but she was an antisuffragist, believing that the tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brady, Kathleen (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=829613
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • I. Beginnings
  • 1. An Unaccommodating Child
  • 2. Pantheistic Evolutionist
  • 3. A Young Lady of Fine Literary Mind
  • II. Exaltation
  • 4. Une Femme Travailleuse
  • 5. The French Salon
  • III. Success
  • 6. The Americanization of Ida Tarbell
  • 7. The Lady of Muckrake
  • 8. Unexplored Land
  • 9. A Second Crusade
  • 10. A Bad Woman
  • IV. Valor
  • 11. Workhorse
  • 12. At Rest
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.