"The History of the Standard Oil Company" uncovered the heartlessness with which John D. Rockefeller had transformed his oil business into an almighty restraining infrastructure. Her written work added constrain to the trustbusting changes of the mid twentieth century. Here Tarbell depicts how Standard Oil utilized lower transportation rates to drive out littler refineries, for example, Hanna, Baslington and Company.
Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens is generally named as a main figure of the muckraking development. He distributed exposes of business and government debasement in McClure's Magazine and different magazines. These articles were then gathered in two books: The Shame of the Cities and The Struggle for Self-Government.