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The History of the Standard Oil Company is a 1904 book by journalist Ida Tarbell. It is an exposé about the Standard Oil Company, run at the time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller , the richest figure in American history.
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's 1990 history of the global petroleum industry from the 1850s through 1990. The Prize became a bestseller, helped by its release date in December 1990, four months after the invasion of Kuwait ordered by Saddam Hussein and one month before the U.S.-led coalition began the Gulf War to oust Iraqi troops from that country.
Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company (1904) became a bestseller. The first book-length investigation of Standard Oil had appeared in 1894 by newspaperman Henry Demarest Lloyd. However, this book, Wealth Against Commonwealth, contained factual errors and appeared to be too accusatory in nature to garner popular acclaim. [92]
Wealth Against Commonwealth is a book published by muckraking journalist Henry Demarest Lloyd. It was published after he had written several essays to The Atlantic Monthly concerning issues with dominating monopolies. It was written in an effort to expose the wrongdoings mainly of the monopoly Standard Oil but also discusses
For 1923, the oil giant recorded sales of $20.3 million on 14.4 million barrels of crude oil (and a small amount of refined product), with a whopping $6.1 million in net income -- both ...
Jersey Standard operated a near monopoly in the American oil industry from 1899 until 1911 and was the largest corporation in the United States. In 1911, the landmark Supreme Court case Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States found Jersey Standard guilty of anticompetitive practices and ordered it to break up its holdings.
Over the course of the 1870s, the Standard Oil Company of Ohio acquired a monopoly on oil refining in the United States. [2] The Cleveland-based company was already among the largest refiners in the United States at the start of the decade, but it controlled only about four percent of the market. [2]
Henry Demarest Lloyd was born on May 1, 1847, in the home of his maternal grandfather on Sixth Avenue in New York City. [1] Henry was the first child of Aaron Lloyd, a graduate of Rutgers College and New Brunswick Theological Seminary and minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Maria Christie (née Demarest) Lloyd.