The following is an excerpt from a chapter on the state of the polling industry in The Surge: 2014's Big GOP Win and What It Means for the Next Presidential Election, published by Rowman and Littlefield.
Closing a chapter on the state's history of anti-Chinese laws, the California Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday to give a posthumous law license to a Chinese immigrant whose race barred him from the state's legal profession 125 years ago.
"Consider the definition of a racketeer as someone who creates a threat and then charges for its reduction," he wrote in a chapter of "Bringing the State Back In" (Cambridge), which was edited by Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol.
Lou Cersosim, the president of Empire State Freedivers, a chapter of the Underwater Society of America, says it takes a different mind-set to tackle freediving.
But Pardee especially endeared himself to Texas football fans for his part in a storied chapter of the state's football history.
Revulsion over the state's actions brought together lawmakers from across the political spectrum, united in the belief that it was time to write the final page in a shameful chapter of the state's history.
The author, James Risen, who is a reporter for The New York Times, received a subpoena on Monday requiring him to provide documents and to testify May 4 before a grand jury in Alexandria, Va., about his sources for a chapter of his book, "State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration".
Risen described Operation Merlin in a chapter of his 2006 book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration.
South Carolina is a "right-to-work" state: Title 41, Chapter 7 of the state code makes it illegal for companies and unions to sign a contract in which anyone who works at the company has to join the union.
The operation is the focus of a chapter of Mr. Risen's 2006 book, "State of War".
