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The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej Paul M. Handley
Publisher: Yale University Press

One is The Revolutionary King by William Stevenson, ISBN 978-1-84119-451-6; the other is The King Never Smiles by Paul M. BANGKOK – THAILAND'S banning of a rare 'warts and all' biography of revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej only stokes interest in the book and risks an eventual explosion of pent-up political tension, an academic said. Gordon posted links the to banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej several years ago while living in the U.S. Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and is now the world's longest-serving monarch. He did all this at his home in Colorado five years ago, but The book Mr Gordon partially translated into Thai is an unauthorized and critical biography of Thailand's monarch called “The King Never Smiles”. Former car salesman Lerpong Wichaikhammat, aka Joe Gordon, received the jail term for translating parts of a book on Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej and then posting the translations on Facebook. King Bhumibol Excerpt on photography and nationalism in Thailand, from The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thalians's Bhumobol Adulyadej by Paul M. 'Banning books is usually something we associate with fascist and repressive regimes,' Australian anthropologist Annette Hamilton told a seminar on 'The King Never Smiles' at an international Thai studies conference in Bangkok on Thursday. And thusly, into these murky waters dives author Paul Handley in his book The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej (2006, ISBN 0-300-10682-3). Handley portrays the King as a firm Though The King Never Smiles is, of course, banned in Thailand due to the law against lese majeste, it is a necessary book, because no institution should be immune from criticism. He helped translate the banned biography "The King Never Smiles. Paul M Handley's unauthorised biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, The King Never Smiles, is unique in that it does not blindly accept the conventional, uncritical view of Bhumibol's reign. Bhumibol Adulyadej (RTGS: Phumiphon Adunyadet; Thai: ภูมิพลอดุลยเดช, Sanskrit: अतुल्यतेज भूमिबोल, Atulyatej Bhumibala; born 5 December 1927 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is the current King of Thailand. He is known as Rama IX ( and within the Thai royal family . The present King of Thailand has an extraordinary place in Thai history and in the affections of his people. But King Bhumibol Adulyadej is 84 years old and has been on the throne since the start of the Cold War. Gordon posted links to the banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej several years ago while living in the U.S. (1) Paul Handley, The King Never Smiles: a Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006. State of Colorado, and his case has raised questions about the applicability of Thai law to acts committed by foreigners outside Gordon, a former car salesman, is accused of having translated excerpts from the unauthorized biography "The King Never Smiles," published by Yale University Press, into the Thai language and publishing them in a blog.