Patrick Wright

Patrick Wright’s Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War, will be published in October by Oxford. The sequel, which will appear next year, is concerned with Rex Warner, Barbara Castle, Stanley Spencer, Clement Attlee, A.J. Ayer and the other British delegates who visited China in 1954, the fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the People’s Republic.

In the LRB Archive:

• Omnipresent Eye: The Nixon/Mao Show · 16 August 2007

  • Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao by Margaret MacMillan

• Little England: The view through a bus window · 7 September 2006

  • Great British Bus Journeys: Travels through Unfamous Places by David McKie

• Cubist Slugs: The Art of Camouflage · 23 June 2005

  • DPM: Disruptive Pattern Material; An Encyclopedia of Camouflage: Nature – Military – Culture

• Dropping Their Eggs on the history of bombing · 23 August 2001

  • A History of Bombing by Sven Lindqvist, translated by Linda Haverty Rugg
  • The Bomber War: Arthur Harris and the Allied Bomber Offensive 1939-45 by Robin Niellands
  • Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald

• Diary · 24 November 1988

• Brideshead and the Tower Blocks · 2 June 1988

  • Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski

• Diary · 31 March 1988

• Radinsky’s Place · 29 October 1987

  • White Chappell: Scarlet Tracings by Iain Sinclair

• Excellence · 21 May 1987

  • Creating excellence: Managing corporate culture, strategy and change in the New Age by Craig Hickman and Michael Silva
  • Intrapreneuring: Why you don’t have to leave the corporation to become an entrepreneur by Gifford Pinchot
  • The IBM Way: Insights into the World’s Most Successful Marketing Organisation by Buck Rodgers
  • Innovation: The Attacker’s Advantage by Richard Foster
  • Ford by Robert Lacey
  • Company of Adventurers: The Story of the Hudson’s Bay Company by Peter Newman
  • Augustine’s Laws by Norman Augustine
  • Peak Performers: The New Heroes in Business by Charles Garfield
  • Going for it: How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur by Victor Kiam
  • Take a chance to be first: The Secrets of Entrepreneurial Success by Warren Avis
  • The Winning Streak by Walter Goldsmith and David Clutterbuck
  • The Roots of Excellence by Ronnie Lessem
  • The New Management of Local Government by John Stewart

• A Journey through Ruins · 18 September 1986

  • The Infant and the Pearl by Douglas Oliver

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