A muckraker is someone that seeks to expose corruption of businesses or government to the public. Ida Minerva Tarbell was a newspaper and magazine writer and editor, lecturer, and a muckraker. She was a muckraker and was known as one of the leading muckrakers of investigative journalism. She exposed corporate America. She was an editor of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. she then went to Paris to support herself by writing for American magazines. Ida Tarbell was hired by McClure's Magazine. She published some of the articles she wrote as books. Ida wrote biographies about Napoleon, Madame Roland and Abraham Lincoln. She was known for "The History of the Standard Oil Company", which was published in 1904. She wrote an expose of the Standard Oil company and John D. Rockefeller. The expose she wrote led to the use of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to break up the Standard Oil Company. From 1906-1915 she joined other writers at the American magazine. At the American magazine she was a writer, editor, and co-owner of the American magazine. She also wrote books where she argued that woman's contribution was with home and family, these books were called "The Business of Being a Woman" and "The Ways of Women."
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