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Agent Provocateur S2 Ep 01: On the American DOJ Vs. The Proposed PRH and S&S Merger

Agent Provocateur by The Rights Factory

Dec 7, 202120:18Arts

We launch Season 2 with a panel discussion of the US Department of Justice bid to block the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. Elaine Dewar (author of The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats...

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