Ida Tarbell was born on November 5,1857 and was a victim of the monopoly of Rockefeller, she and her family struggled to come up with money for some time but with the help of the community were able to rise from the hardship. Ida went on to become an educated woman and was a working writer for a magazine called McClure magazine, it was there that she dedicated herself to writing and documenting the most well written historical story of Abraham Lincoln. But her best and most polemic writing was the uncovering of John D. Rockefeller's monopoly business, were she took more than five years interviewing and searching for the evidence that would back up her claims of illegal practices by Rockefeller. It was because of this challenging and determined task Tarbell took on just to break apart the Rockefeller business that the then President Theodore Roosevelt named her a Muckraker. A term that described those journalists who uncovered controversial stories in order to ruin the corrupt people. Tarbell took offense in the term she viewed her job and success as the job and duty of journalist a job that all should be doing and not just her.
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