Our Charismatic Ex-Mayor Sells His Stuff to C.E.O.’s

Leadership , by Rudolph Giuliani, with Ken Kurson. Miramax Books, 407 pages, $25.95.

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs , by Rakesh Khurana. Princeton University Press, 295 pages, $29.95.

In the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack, with Air Force One out dawdling somewhere on the scenic route Read More

Dow at Spanierman Gallery: Major Show for Minor Guy

There are certain figures in late 19th- and early 20th-century American art whose names are better-known than their work, and Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922)-currently the subject of a large exhibition at the Spanierman Gallery-is one of them. To the extent that his name is remembered today, it is probably owing to the fact that Georgia Read More

Despite Mentor Matisse, Weber Lost Early Magic

Toward the end of Hilary Spurling’s The Unknown Matisse (Knopf), the recently published first volume of what promises to be a definitive biography of Henri Matisse, there are a few passages that give us a glimpse of the American painter Max Weber, whose work is currently the subject of an interesting exhibition, Max Weber Discoveries Read More