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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 By Stephen Metcalf
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 By Hilton Kramer