More: Spanning Time: The ill-fated story of a Newark Valley factory ... of the Civil War. Oil had become king in terms of the ...

In "The History of the Standard Oil Company," she skillfully infused her exposé of the complicated inner workings of Rockefeller's trust with dramatic tension. Her eloquent prose, as gripping as ...

Tarbell: [Mr. Rockefeller] was no ordinary man. He had the powerful imagination to see what might be done with the oil business if it could be centered in his hands — the intelligence to ...