THE UNITED STATES AND CENTRAL EUROPE IN THE AMERICAN CENTURY

ISBN: 978-83-61325-92-5   198 stron format: B5 oprawa: twarda Rok wydania: 2020

Zbiór esejów, których autor, ambasador Daniel Fried, opisuje historię relacji polsko-amerykańskich na tle dziejowych wydarzeń: pokoju w Jałcie, końca Zimnej Wojny i upadku komunizmu w Europie. Ambasador Fried przywołuje opinie najwybitniejszych historyków polskich: Zbigniewa Lewickiego, Piotra Wandycza czy Bogusława Winida. To jedna z najlepszych analiz stosunków polsko-amerykańskich.

Ambassador Daniel Fried‘s book is an unexpected gift honoring the 100th anniversary of the United States recognition of the reestablished Poland hundreds of years ago in January 1919. In spite of being a relatively brief presentation it nevertheless fills an important lacuna in a scholarly knowledge of the US-Poland relations. By thorough in-depth analysis of US policies over those years. So far, many scholars analyzed various aspects of complicated relations between the USA - a superpower and a newly reestablished Poland, but Amb. Fried‘s book is by far the best written analysis of the history of the American-Polish relations which in reality were affecting not only the beginning in 1918 but also even affecting Poland‘s contemporary status and development.

(Prof. Anthony Z. Kruszewski; professor emeritus of Political Science, The University of Texas at El Paso)

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