Adam Sheingate is a professor and chair of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State.

"This riveting book tracks a key development--changes to the world of political consulting--that has reshaped political life in the United States. Written with historical depth, analytical acuity, empirical richness, and normative sensibility, its compelling appraisal about the conduct of competitive politics, past and present, could not be more timely." --Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University and author of lFear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

"Employing a political scientist's rigor and an historian's sensibility and research, Building a Business of Politics adroitly captures the evolution of political consulting from its origins at the start of the twentieth century to the digital world it operates in today." --Brian Balogh, Professor of History, University of Virginia

"Much of what drives the 2016 campaign each day can be seen in the election of 1916. In this revealing history, Adam Sheingate looks behind the candidates to the class of political professionals who have shaped our elections and government over the century since." --Sasha Issenberg, author of lThe Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns