Monopoly Money

<p>October 1, 1904. Show up at a newsstand this morning, and you'll see that the October issue of McClure's magazine has hit the shelves. Alongside it, newspapers advertise what’s inside: "Ida M. Tarbell renders her final judgment of Rockefeller's Trust." It’s the 19th and last installment in a series that has made people sit up and take notice of a powerful monopoly and the man behind it. How did a scrappy reporter take on the richest man in the country? And how, in the process, did she change corporate America and investigative journalism itself?</p><p><br></p><p>Special thanks to our guests, Stephanie Gorton, author of <em>Citizen Reporters: S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America; </em>Kathleen Brady, author of <em>Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker;</em> and Steve Weinberg, author of <em>Taking on the Trust: How Ida Tarbell Brought Down John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil.</em></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>