Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum IndustryTraditional accounts of John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company, as well as recent best-selling books on the subject, still accept without question charges of unethical and anti-competitive behavior by the American oil industry. In this pathbreak |
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