Today I am going to elaborate on a book that I just read recently. It´s name is "The Populist Eplosion - How the great Recession Transformed American and European Politics". This very analytical, small, yellow book was written by John B. Judis, an American author and journalist from Chicago. It was published just in the last year in October, which is very important, talking about the big Issue of Populism. In his book, Judis doesn't just focus on the topic of right-wing populism, but also deals with populism from the left and its origin. He started with American history and the history of American Populism, just after defining what is actually meant by the term. It is surprising that we use it so frequently and for almost everything that we don't want to accept, but can't precisely define what it actually means. He describes the offspring of American Populism in the "Peoples Party". Actually coming from the socialist movement, this party formed as an o