All in the Day's Work by Ida Tarbell audiobook.

Genre: biography

In All in the Day's Work, pioneering investigative journalist Ida M. Tarbell tells the story behind the byline, tracing her path from a childhood in western Pennsylvania's oil country to the center of American letters and reform. Raised in a family shaped by boom-and-bust fortunes and fierce debates over fairness, Tarbell grows into a determined student and one of the few women pushing into professional life on her own terms. She follows opportunity into the world of magazines, reporting and editing while learning how ideas, money, and power move through a rapidly industrializing nation. Tarbell recounts formative years of study and travel, her early editorial work, and the craft of building long-form narratives from interviews, archives, and stubborn fact-checking. As her career accelerates, she navigates the pressures of deadline culture, the politics of publishing, and the skepticism reserved for a woman in a male-dominated newsroom. Along the way, she reflects on the people she profiles, the mentors and rivals who test her, and the moral calculus of exposing wrongdoing without sacrificing accuracy. Clear-eyed, witty, and intensely observant, this autobiography captures the making of a journalist and the era that demanded her kind of scrutiny.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:42:14) Chapter 02

(01:25:28) Chapter 03

(01:53:24) Chapter 04

(02:27:26) Chapter 05

(03:24:35) Chapter 06

(04:02:01) Chapter 07

(04:44:19) Chapter 08

(05:35:37) Chapter 09

(06:06:48) Chapter 10

(06:46:30) Chapter 11

(07:37:40) Chapter 12

(08:15:48) Chapter 13

(08:42:41) Chapter 14

(09:33:59) Chapter 15

(10:03:47) Chapter 16

(10:33:11) Chapter 17

(11:21:02) Chapter 18

(12:01:34) Chapter 19

(12:37:52) Chapter 20

(13:28:05) Chapter 21

(13:55:50) Chapter 22

(14:27:40) Chapter 23

(14:56:21) Chapter 24

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