He helped build the ad agency BBDO International into a powerhouse before channeling his passion for opera into managing the Met and revitalizing Lincoln Center.

An ex-Marine and a 40-year company veteran, he turned a nearly bankrupt money loser into the world’s most profitable automaker.

He designed museums, schools and libraries before winning international acclaim late in life for 15 Central Park West in Manhattan, hailed as a rebirth of…

He made billions selling energy with his Coastal Corporation, courted presidents and dictators, and eventually went to prison for paying kickbacks to the Iraqi government.

He made billions selling energy with his Coastal Corporation, courted presidents and dictators, and eventually went to prison for paying kickbacks to the Iraqi government.

A journalist of the old school, he covered presidential races and political affairs for several newspapers and in many books, as well as in a…

He was best known for his success in business, notably the international beauty company he built with his mother, Estée Lauder. But he was also…

As founding editor of The Texas Observer, he fought bigotry and exposed corporate greed, political chicanery and government corruption.

A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race,…

In novels like “The Glitter Dome” and nonfiction works like “The Onion Field,” he took a harsh, unglamorous look at the realities of law enforcement.