Ida Tarbell and Ralph Nader had many things in common. They were both well known muckrakers, pioneers of their time, brilliant authors and teachers. At the same time they were different in the fact that Tarbell’s work concentrated on the oil industry while Nader concentrated on a much broader area of public and environmental safety.
Ida Tarbell wrote a book about History of the Standard Oil Company which was published in 1904. The book centered