by James N. Jackson (Editor), Ida M. Tarbell (Author)
Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857 - 1944) was an Americanteacher, author and journalist. She wrote many notablemagazine series and biographies, and is best known forher 1904 book The History of the Standard OilCompany, which was listed as No. 5 in a 1999 list byNew York University of the top 100 works of 20thcentury American journalism.In 2000 she was induction into the National Women'sHall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.In 2002, the United States Postal Service issued acommemorative stamp honoring Ida M. Tarbell as partof a series of four stamps honoring women journalists.This book contains her 1909 Lincoln lecture at theUniversity of Michigan and the Billy Brown Stories, namely; He Knew Lincoln; Back in '58; FatherAbraham; and In Lincoln's Chair