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Originally serialized in 19 parts in mcclures magazine, the book was a seminal example of muckraking, and inspired many other journalists to write about trusts. In this book, shafiee maps the machinery of oil operations in the. The history of the standard oil company work by tarbell. A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, daniel yergin continues the riveting story begun in.
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