Wańkowicz publicysta : studium przypadku : "Polacy i Ameryka"

This article discusses Melchior Wańkowicz’s journalism from the 1940s and 1950s, in particular his book of essays "The Poles and America" (1954). On the basis of his letters to the publisher Czesław Bednarczyk has been possible to establish the precise chronology of his work, especially when he returned to and rehashed articles that had been published earlier. His collection of 1954 can be divided into three blocks, the role of the Polish diaspora in the history and in present-day of the United States, and the great sociocultural change of the mid-20th century. The latter - the transition of the Western civilization from into an Atlanticist and ultimately into a universal one - has been spearheaded by the United States, and the Polish Americans, Wańkowicz argues, played a significant role in that process. There are also some polemical remarks about some publications issued in America concerning Poland's 20th-century history.