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Notes on Donald Newton Wilber
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Don Wilber was a true
renaissance man, author, scholar, adventurer,
spy, and patriot. What he did, he did well and
changed the course of human events far more than
most men could ever dream of. His book on Timurid
architecture is a major work. Wilber was a
founder of the Princeton Rug Society. Wilber had
a long association with and a financial interest
in Oriental Rug Review. Don developed the plan
and added in the execution of overthrewing the
legally constituted Government of Iran and placed
the Shah on the throne. Don Wilber recruited
Ayatollah Kashani to help overthrow the Mosadegh
Government of Iran in the CIA plot of 1953.
Don was the principle planner of
Operation Ajax and he deeply resented the way he
was treated in Kim
Roosevelt's book. However had Kim continued
to treat Don to oysters on the half shell at the
Metropolitan Club he might have been in much
better humor.
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Don
worked with and liked Ambassador Loy Henderson.
Founded
Middle East Research Associates in 1957.
Joined the Hajji Baba Club in
1958.
Owned 10% of Oriental
Rug Review.
Author of about 14 books, many
are still in print.
The Joseph
V. McMullan Award
Wilber,
Donald N. Adventures In The Middle East.
Wilber,
Donald N. Afghanistan.
Wilber,
Donald N. Iran Past and Present Eighth Edition
Rug
Societies
Hajji
Baba Club
Wilber,
Donald N.: A Descriptive catalog of Dated Rugs
and of Inscribed Rugs ; (Washington): 1989.
Wilber, Donald Newton.
Architecture of Islamic Iran, the Il Khanid
Period. 1955
Wilber, Donald Newton. Pakistan :
Its People, Its Society, Its Culture. 1980
Wilber,
Donald Newton. Persepolis : The Archaeology of
Persia, Seat of the Persian Kings. 1989
Wilber,
Donald Newton. Persian Gardens and Garden
Pavilions. 1979
Wilber, Donald Newton. United
Arab Republic-Egypt. 1969
Wilber, Donald Newton. Iran, past
and present
Wilber,
Donald Newton. Iran, Past and Present, from
Monarchy to Islamic Republic. 1982
Wilber, Donald Newton. The Land
and People of Ceylon. 1979
Wilber, Donald Newton. Riza Shah
Pahlavi : The Resurrection and Reconstruction of
Iran. An Exposition-University Book. 1975
Wilber,
Donald Newton. The Timurid Architecture of Iran
and Turan (Princeton Monographs in Art and
Archaeology, 46) 1988 Also with Lisa Golombek
Wilber, Donald N. and Ellis,
Charles Grant. Persian Gardens and Garden
Carpets. Unpublished, manuscript delivered to
Oghuz Press but after many years no book.
CIA: Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq
of Iran
Oriental
Rug Review
Armenian Carpets by Manya
Ghazarian, Wilber, D.N., Oriental Rug Review.
IX/5/27
"An Introduction to
Persian Village Rugs," Wilber, D.
N., Oriental Rug Review.
IX/6/6-
Oriental Rugs from the
Tents, Cottages and Workshops of Asia Dr. Jon Thompson,
Review by Wilber, Donald N., IX/3/29
"Bibliography for
Persian Tribal Rugs," Wilber, Donald
N., Oriental Rug Review.
X/5/13
A Descriptive Catalog of
Dated Rugs and of Inscribed Rugs, Wilber,
Donald N., Review by Tarantino, Thomas
H., X/3/20
Prehistoric Textiles: The
Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and
Bronze Ages by E.J.W. Barber, review by
Wilber, Donald N., Oriental Rug Review.
XI/6/47
"Donald N. Wilber: A
Tribute," O'Bannon, George, Oriental Rug Review.
XI/5/32-33
"Luristan
Bronzes," Wilber, Donald N., Oriental Rug Review.
XI/5/34-45
"Swat That
Pest," Wilber, Donald N., Oriental Rug Review.
XI/5/46-48
"Bijar
Weavings", Wilber, Donald N., Oriental Rug Review.
XII/4/28-29, 40
Wilber, Donald N., Tapis
et Textiles Armeniens, Oriental Rug Review.
XII/1/38
Tapis et Textiles
Armeniens, reviewed by Wilber, Donald,
N., Oriental Rug Review.
XII/1/38
Hand-Weaves of the Tribes
and Villages of Fars, Parham, Sirus,
reviewed by Wilber, Donald, N., Oriental Rug Review.
XIII/2/50
Woven
with Love, Tribal Gabbehs and Carpets
from Fars, Fasai, Mohammad S.
reviewed by Wilber, Donald, N., Oriental Rug Review.
XIII/3/38
Bornet, Georges D.,
"An Origin of Gabbeh
Patterns?," reviewed by Wilber,
Donald, N., Oriental Rug Review.
XIII/2/18-19
"An Elder Generation
of Rug Merchants, No. 1. Milani,"
Wilber, Donald N., Oriental Rug Review.
XIII/2/51
Where
in Hell is George, by Ron O'Callaghan
and Donald N. Wilber, Tributes from
friends of George O'Bannon. Oriental Rug Review.
Vol. 14, No. 5, June/July, 1994
George
W. O'Bannon, An Irishman in Friendly
Disguise, by Donald N. Wilber. Oriental Rug Review.
Vol. 14, No. 5, June/July, 1994
Crossing The
Bar by Alfred Tennyson
For Further Reading:
Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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