Robert Sobel was an American 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 B.S.S. and M.A. at City College of New York, and after serving in the U.S. Army, obtained a Ph.D. 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. After his death, the university established the Robert Sobel Endowed Scholarship for Excellence in Business History and... Finance. Sobel's first business history, published in 1965, was The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market. It was the first history of the stock market written in over a generation. The book was met with favorable reviews, and solid sales, and Sobel's writing career was launched. Several of his subsequent books were best sellers. Besides writing more than 30 books, Sobel authored many articles, book reviews, and scripts for television documentaries and mini-series.
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