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Robert Sobel in a promotional photo for his publisher.

Robert N. Sobel (February 19 1931 – June 2, 1999) was professor of history at Hofstra University and a well-known and prolific writer of business histories.

Sobel was born in the Bronx, in New York City, New York. He completed his bachelor's at City College of New York and obtained a PhD from New York University in 1957. He started teaching at Hofstra in 1956. Sobel eventually became Lawrence Stessin Distinguished Professor of Business History at Hofstra. Sobel wrote more than 30 books and he published in national periodicals, including Barron's, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Sobel's first book, published in 1962 was The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market. He was perhaps most famous for his 1973 book, For Want of a Nail, an alternate history in which Burgoyne won the Battle of Saratoga.

Bibliography

Fiction

  • For Want of a Nail (1973)

Non-fiction

  • The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market (1962)
  • Panic on Wall Street: A History of America's Financial Disasters (1968)
  • The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition (1974)
  • Herbert Hoover and the Onset of the Great Depression 1929-1930 (1975)
  • NYSE: a history of the New York Stock Exchange: 1935-1975 (1975)
  • Inside Wall Street : Continuity & Change in the Financial District (1977)
  • The Fallen Colossus (1977), concerning the failure of Penn Central Transportation
  • IBM: Colossus in Transition (1981)
  • Thomas Watson, Sr.: IBM and the Computer Revolution, (1981), biography of Thomas J. Watson
  • ITT: The Management of Opportunity (1982)
  • IBM vs. Japan: The Struggle for the Future (1986)
  • RCA (1986)
  • Salomon Brothers 1910-1985 (1986)
  • Trammell Crow, Master Builder: The Story of America's Largest Real Estate Empire (1989), biography of Trammell Crow
  • The Life and Times of Dillon Read (1991)
  • Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael Milken (1993)
  • The Age of Giant Corporations: A Microeconomic History of the United States (1993)
  • Coolidge: An American Enigma (1998), biography of Calvin Coolidge
  • The Pursuit of Wealth: The Incredible Story of Money Throughout the Ages of Wealth (1999)
  • The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerate Kings (1999)
  • When Giants Stumble: Classic Business Blunders and How to Avoid Them (1999)
  • AMEX: A History of the American Stock Exchange (2000)
  • The Curbstone Brokers: The Origins of the American Stock Exchange (2000)
  • The Money Manias: The Eras of Great Speculation in America 1770-1970 (2000)
  • The Great Boom 1950-2000 : How a Generation of Americans Created the World's Most Prosperous Society (2002)

Essays

  • The Great Bull Market: Wall Street in the 1920's (1968)
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