1. Miss Tarbell spent five years in hard research and writing before her work was completed.

2. No Boston painter would have attempted to settle an aesthetic difference like Luks did when he punched Edmund Tarbell in the jaw.

3. Today's target of choice may be AIG, but this has been true since Ida Tarbell and the trust-busters made John D. Rockefeller the most hated man in America.

4. A gracious survey of Lincoln's early biographers, particularly Ida Tarbell, stands alongside an appreciation of Harry Edward Pratt, a key figure in the early days of the Abraham Lincoln Association.

5. If you look closely at the picture, you can see the face of Ida Tarbell.