Steve Weinberg has written six previous nonfiction books as well as dozens of investigative reports for magazines and newspapers. Weinberg currently teaches at the top-ranked University of Missouri Journalism School and has served for nine years as an elected member of the National Book Critics Circle board of directors.



TAKING ON THE TRUST:
The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
W.W. Norton, March 2008
Genre: Current Events & Politics
Agent: Faith Hamlin

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“There have been few journalists as brave as Ida Tarbell. By telling the story of Tarbell and Rockefeller, Steve Weinberg reminds us of the importance of the free press and the courage of those willing ‘to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
—Gay Talese, author of A Writer’s Life

At the height of the Gilded Age, a fearless and ambitious reporter named Ida Tarbell sparked a momentous confrontation with America’s richest man, John D. Rockefeller, and the company so powerful it was known simply as “The Trust.” Based on extensive research, The Trust is a vivid and dramatic history of the Progressive Era and the epic clash that forever altered the landscape of modern American industry.