A Review of “Remaking the Presidency: Roosevelt,Taft, and Wilson, 1901–1916”

Binder, Sarah A., and Steven S. Smith. Politics or Principle: Filibustering in the United States Senate. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1996. Pp. xvi, 247. $38.95 hardbound, $16.95 softbound.

DeGregorio, Christina A. Network of Champions: Leadership, Access, and Advocacy in the U.S. House of Representatives. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 185. $39.50 hardbound.

Frantzich, Stephen and John Sullivan. The C-SPAN Revolution. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 433. $24.95 hardbound.

Rozell, Mark J. In Contempt of Congress: Postwar Press Coverage on Capitol Hill. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. Pp. ix, 144. $49.95 hardbound.

Gerhardt, Michael J. The Federal Impeachment Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii, 233. $29.95 hardbound.

Glaser, James M. Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment in the South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 229. $39.95 hardbound, $19.95 soft bound.

Hall, Richard L. Participation in Congress. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 293. $37.50 hardbound.

Maltzman, Forrest. Competing Principals: Committees, Parties and the Organization of Congress. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 197. $39.50 hardbound.

Poole, Keith T. and Howard Rosenthal. Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 297. $85.00 hardbound.

Rom, Mark Carl. Public Spirit in the Thrift Tragedy. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 326. $49.95 hardcover, $22.95 softcover.

Sinclair, Barbara. Unorthodox Lawmaking: New Legislative Processes in the U.S. Congress. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 257. $39.95 hardbound, $19.95 softbound.     

A Review of “The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney”

Craig, Barbara Hinkson. The Legislative Veto: Congressional Control of Regulation. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983. Pp. xviii, 176. $16.00.

George C. Edwards III. The Public Presidency: The Pursuit of Popular Support. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. x, 276. Hardbound, $16.95; softbound, $8.95.

Goldenberg, Edie N., and Michael W. Traugott. Campaigning for Congress. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1984. Pp. 192, Bibliography, Index. $9.50.

Kau, James B. and Paul H. Rubin. Congressmen, Constituents, and Contributors: Determinants of Roll Call Voting in the House of Representatives. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishing, 1982. Pp. ix, 160. $25.00.

Melnick, R. Shep. Regulation and the Courts: The Case of the Clean Air Act. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1983. Pp. x, 404. Hardbound, $22.95; softbound, $11.95.

Shelley, Mack C. II. The Permanent Majority: The Conservative Coalition in the United States Congress. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1983. Pp. 201. $24.50.

Sinclair, Barbara. Congressional Realignment: 1925-1978. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. Pp. 201. $25.00.

Spitzer, Robert J. The Presidency and Public Policy: The Four Arenas of Presidential Power. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1983. Pp. 189. $18.75.

Turner, Michael. The Vice President as Policy Maker: Rockefeller in the Ford White House. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. xviii, 252. Hardbound, $29.95.     

The Body–Power Relationship and Immanent Philosophy: A Question of Life and Death

According to Foucault, the human body is the targeted object of modern power systems. In his genealogical studies, Foucault describes the manner in which these power systems leave an imprint on the body and utilize knowledge of the body as an indirect means of exercising subtle forms of control. In recent years, several researchers have claimed that the status of the body, subsumed as it is by modern power networks, has become a means for conducting a unique political critique in which the human being is viewed as an agent of oppression and freedom. This article takes a fresh look at Foucault’s notions of life and death that underpin the critical understanding the body–power relationship. While this approach recognizes the completeness of subjective structuring processes, it also enables the formulation of new insights regarding the status of the modern individual as the subject of separate and independent modes of speech and action.