Quotes About Tarbell

Rockefeller could brush off Tarbell's critique of his business methods as biased, but he was deeply pained by the character study.

Tough challenges from Rockefeller might have blunted Tarbell's confidence and made readers question her sources.

But the main reason for Rockefeller's silence was that he couldn't dispute just a few of Tarbell's assertions without admitting the truth of many others

With the Tarbell series under way, Rockefeller kept a salutary distance from his new foundation.

From the start, sensing that Tarbell was full of malice toward Standard Oil, Archbold had refused to cooperate.

This is abundantly borne out by Rockefeller's private papers, which show that the practice was even more pervasive than Tarbell realized.