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American Scandal

Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, History Daily, American History Tellers, Lindsay Graham

4.6 • 18.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

John D. Rockefeller makes a bold move, one that helps him crush his opponents. Soon, disaster strikes in Titusville, Pennsylvania. And that means it's time for Ida Tarbell to return home—and to take on Standard Oil.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American Scandal add-free on Amazon music, download the app today.
0:19.0	It's January 1882 in Cleveland, Ohio.
0:23.0	Inside the offices of Standard Oil, a shaft of morning light pours in through the windows.
0:27.0	It lights up a row of men who sit hunched over their desks.
0:31.0	The room is quiet and still.
0:33.0	But the silence is broken by the sound of heavy footsteps as John D. Rockefeller enters the room.
0:38.0	He wears a silk top hat and carries a long black umbrella.
0:42.0	His expression is grim.
0:44.0	Rockefeller walks past the row of men, his bookkeepers.
0:47.0	One man looks up from his ledger and smiles, but Rockefeller strides right past him.
0:52.0	Rockefeller then enters his private office and slams the door.
0:55.0	In the office, he takes a seat and opens a book of accounts.
0:58.0	He shakes his head and disgust.
1:00.0	Usually, a good night of sleep helps him figure out the answers to all his worries, but not this time.
1:05.0	He's finally run up against a problem that even he can't solve.
1:12.0	Come in, come in.
1:15.0	A man in a gray wool suit enters.
1:17.0	His name is Samuel Dodd and his Rockefeller's lawyer.
1:20.0	Rockefeller's size and relief.
1:22.0	Dodd has a brilliant legal mind and he's just a man that Rockefeller needs right now.
1:27.0	Sam, please take a seat.
1:30.0	Dodd settles into a large chair and Rockefeller continues.
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