Standard Oil
Companiesoil-and-gas
The trust whose breakup shaped American antitrust law, and the subject of the founding work of investigative business journalism.
10 books · 4 people behind it
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- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.Ron Chernow, 1998
- The History of the Standard Oil CompanyIda M. Tarbell, 1904
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and PowerDaniel Yergin, 1991
The people behind it 4
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Academics 1
Journalists 3
Books 10
Ida M. Tarbell · 1904 · The muckraking investigation that helped force the 1911 breakup.
Daniel Yergin · 1991 · Standard Oil as the opening act of the world oil industry.
Ron Chernow · 1998 · The definitive Rockefeller biography and Standard Oil narrative.
Matthew Josephson · 1934 · The framing of Rockefeller's generation that shaped US policy.
T2 The Tycoons
Charles R. Morris · 2005 · Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gould and Morgan and the economy they built
Allan Nevins · 1940 · The major revisionist defence written against Tarbell.
Ralph W. Hidy, Muriel E. Hidy · 1955 · The authorised scholarly history of Standard Oil of New Jersey.
Peter Collier, David Horowitz · 1976 · The family and trusts that outlived the operating company.
Steve Weinberg · 2008 · Dual portrait of Tarbell and Rockefeller and their collision.
Kathleen Brady · 1984 · Biography of the journalist whose reporting broke the trust.