Amex A History of the American Stock Exchange 1921-1971

9781893122482

1893122484

Robert Sobel was born in 1931 and died in 1999. He was a prolific historian of American business life, writing or editing more than 50 books and hundreds of articles and corporate profiles. He was a professor of business at Hofstra University for 43 years and held a Ph.D. from New York University. Besides producing books, articles, book reviews, scripts for television and audiotapes, he was a weekly columnist for Newsday from 1972 to 1988. At the time of his death he was a contributing editor to Barron's Magazine. Other books by Robert Sobel * Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael Milken * Inside Wall Street * ITT: The Management of Opportunity * Panic on Wall Street: A History of America's Financial Disasters * The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market * The Curbstone Brokers: The Origins of the American Stock Exchange * The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition * The Fallen Colossus * The Money Manias: The Eras of Great Speculation in America 1770-1970 * The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerate Kings * Thomas Watson, Sr.: IBM and the Computer Revolution