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Full Name: Robert Sobel
Biography:
(1931-1999) Historian. Robert Sobel was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1931 and died in 1999. He was a well-known writer of business histories.
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1931 Bronx County
Robert Sobel was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1931. 
1951 New York County
Mr. Sobel earned his bachelor of science in 1951 and his master's in 1952 at City College of New York in Manhattan, New York. 
1957 New York County
Mr. Sobel earned a Ph.D. at New York University in 1957.  
1956 Nassau County
Mr. Sobel began teaching at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, in 1956. 
1965 (Unknown) County
The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market
(Pub: New York, NY: The Free Press ISBN: )
Nonfiction. 
1973 (Unknown) County
For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga
(Pub: New York, NY: Macmillan ISBN: 1-85367-281-5)
Fiction. 
1999 Nassau County
Robert Sobel died at his home in Long Beach, New York, on June 2, 1999. 
1993 (Unknown) County
Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael Milken
(Pub: New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471577340 / 978-0471577348 )
Nonfiction. 
1998 (Unknown) County
Coolidge: An American Enigma
(Pub: Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 0895264102 / 978-0895264107 )
Biography of Calvin Coolidge. 
1999 (Unknown) County
When Giants Stumble: Classic Business Blunders and How to Avoid Them
(Pub: Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall Press ISBN: 0735200599 / 978-0735200593 )
Nonficition. 
1981 (Unknown) County
Thomas Watson, Sr.: IBM and the Computer Revolution
(Pub: Washington, DC: BeardBooks ISBN: 1-893122-82-4)
Nonfiction. 
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