Track | Chapter | Length |
01 | 01- Preface and Chapter 1 Part 1 | 42:08 |
02 | 02 - Chapter 1 Part 2 | 41:56 |
03 | 03 - Chapter 2 Part 1 - The Rise of The Standard Oil Company | 42:52 |
04 | 04 - Chapter 2 Part 2 The Rise of The Standard Oil Company | 22:18 |
05 | 05 - Chapter 3 Part 1 - The Oil War of 1872 | 40:13 |
06 | 06 - Chapter 3 Part 2 - The Oil War of 1872 | 32:55 |
07 | 07 - Chapter 4 Part 1 - An Unholy Alliance | 36:27 |
08 | 08 - Chapter 4 Part 2 - An Unholy Alliance | 15:28 |
09 | 09 - Chapter 5 Part 1 - Laying The Foundations Of A Trust | 38:44 |
10 | 10 - Chapter 5 Part 2 - Laying The Foundations Of A Trust | 45:27 |
11 | 11 - Chapter 6 Part 1 - Strengthening The Foundations | 44:56 |
12 | 12 - Chapter 6 Part 2 - Strengthening The Foundations | 45:57 |
13 | 13 - Chapter 7 Part 1 - The Crisis of 1878 | 36:19 |
14 | 14 - Chapter 7 Part 2 - The Crisis of 1878 | 31:41 |
15 | 15 - Chapter 8 The Compromise of 1880 | 45:32 |
16 | 01 - Chapter 9 The Fight For The Seaboard Pipeline | 58:42 |
17 | 02 - Chapter 10 Part One Cutting To Kill | 33:31 |
18 | 03 - Chapter 10 Part Two Cutting To Kill | 27:47 |
19 | 04 - Chapter 11 The War On The Rebate | 52:10 |
20 | 05 - Chapter 12 The Buffalo Case | 47:13 |
21 | 06 - Chapter 13 The Standard Oil Company and Politics | 36:36 |
22 | 07 - Chapter 14. The Breaking Up Of The Trust | 57:53 |
23 | 08 - Chapter 15. Part One A Modern War For Independence | 42:26 |
24 | 09 - Chapter 15. Part Two A Modern War For Independence | 28:00 |
25 | 10 - Chapter 16 Part One The Price of Oil | 43:13 |
26 | 11 - Chapter 16 Part Two The Price of Oil | 37:40 |
27 | 12 - Chapter 17 The Legitmate Greatness of the Standard Oil Company | 49:26 |
28 | 13 - Chapter 18 Conclusion | 1:16:59 |
Notes
Running Time: 19 hours 14 minutes
Read by: Tom Weiss
Book Coordinator: Tom Weiss
Meta Coordinator: Maria Therese
Proof Listener: mim@can
Artwork
Cover: Color lithograph of a political cartoon depicting a Standard Oil tank as an octopus with many tentacles wrapped around the steel, copper, and shipping industries, as well as a state house, the U.S. Capitol, and one tentacle reaching for the White House. By Udo J. Keppler, 1904
DVD Inset: Front page of The History of the Standard Oil Company, written by Ida Tarbell 1904
DVD Inset: Ida M. Tarbell, 1904
DVD Insert: Stand Oil logo
Recordings
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The federal antitrust laws seek to provide balance in the relationship between consumers and corporate purveyors of goods and services. Their purpose is to foster competition so as to maintain a fair price for goods and services. If there’s only one bakery in town, the price for baked goods will likely exceed what would otherwise be a fair market value, arrived at in another town where there are several bakeries, each competing for their share of the market. The concepts are simple, but their application can boggle the mind, especially when the corporation in question is as big, as dominant, and as all pervasive as the Standard Oil Company. In 1900 Ida Tarbell, one of the first “muckraking” investigative began to exhaustive research on the Standard Oil Corporation, which resulted in a 19-part series in McClure’s magazine and was published in 1904 as The History of the Standard Oil Company. The book confronts the irony inherent in corporate success: Can corporate dominance ultimately harm the consumer since dominance extends to the unfettered setting of prices and the overwhelming of the presence and growth of potential competitors. This is the story of John D. Rockefeller, a preternaturally gifted manager and financier who used anti-competitive tactics to create the most successful company of its time and become the wealthiest of all Americans in his time. The book continues to be relevant in our new gilded age, and NYU lists it as number 5 on its list of the top 100 non-fiction works of all time. Like many works of non-fiction, it’s too good to be true – but it is. (Summary by Michael Hogan)
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 06847589364 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0682550992167 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case |
Author | Ida M. Tarbell |
Year | 1904 |
Recording | |
Read by | Tom Weiss |
Length | 19 hours 8 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
The History of the Standard Oil Company
- Author: Ida M. Tarbell
- Product Code: DB-1066
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