“It is calm and dispassionate, and calculated to do quite as much if not more good than if it were pitched in a high and noisy key. Is to the present time the most remarkable book of its kind ever written in this country.”
| + + + | Critic. 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 120w. |
“The book is a genuine contribution to that knowledge of the real inwardness of things industrial which Americans as a people so lack.” Frank L. McVey.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 313. My. 1, ‘05. 2190w. |
“Miss Tarbell’s success, for she has achieved a very distinct success, is in having made her story in its logical simplicity and directness as fascinatingly interesting as it is disagreeable. She has preserved her position as historian and has not abandoned it even temporarily for that of the prosecuting advocate.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 840. Ap. 13, ‘05. 600w. |
“This book seems to have been written for the purpose of intensifying the popular hatred. The writer has either a vague conception of the nature of proof, or she is willing to blacken the character of Mr. John D. Rockefeller by insinuation and detraction.”
| — — + | Nation. 80: 15. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1970w. |
“The value ... lies largely in the fact that the author has no thesis to sustain and is willing to let her readers draw their own conclusions. It is a model of condensed, graphic statement. The dramatic aspects of the story are not lost in the telling, while the arrangement of the materials is convenient for the purposes of the student and the legislator as well as for general reading.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 394. F. 11, ‘05. 2190w. |