Local Author Launches New Book: POPULISMS. A QUICK IMMERSION

Carlos de la Torre is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky whose new book, Populisms. A Quick Immersion is launching today. Most books about populism focus on the U.S. and Europe, relegating Latin America and other experiences of the global south to marginal footnotes, but Populisms. A Quick Immersion looks at global populism from a Latin American perspective because that is the region where populists have governed since the 1930s.

“I have been researching populism for more than two decades, and I believe that countries in the global north have much they can learn from Latin American experiences with populist leaders” explains Professor Carlos de la Torre.

The book has already earned early praise. Benjamin Welton writes in Foreword Reviews, "Populism has become one of the defining political movements of the twenty-first century, and Carlos de la Torre’s Populisms: A Quick Immersion works to demystify it…Few books touch a contemporary nerve quite like this one.”

Carlos de la Torre is the second in a prestigious line-up of authors of the Quick Immersions books. The goal of the book series is to combine reliable facts with straightforward explanations to aid anyone who would like to expand his or her knowledge of diverse issues in science, humanities, philosophy, and social and political sciences.

Both the Kindle (166 pages, $6.95) and paperback (190 pages, $12) versions of Populisms. A Quick Immersion are now available on Amazon.com.