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

In 1946 His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the ninth king of the Chakri dynasty, ascended to the Thai throne. Handley, was banned in Thailand before it was even published because of its critical nature of the king. December 9, 2011 Thai-born Lerpong Wichaikhammat, 55, a U.S. Resident for the last three decades, was convicted of posting online a Thai translation of "The King Never Smiles," an unofficial biography, several years ago while living in Colorado. Thai-born American Joe Gordon has been detained since late May for translating excerpts of a locally banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and posting them online. Handley states that the king has heavily promoted the throne as the nation's salvation. 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. Gordon posted links to the banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej several years ago while living in the U.S. Joe Gordon, who was convicted last year of translating excerpts of an unauthorized biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej from English into Thai and posting them online, said those jailed under Thai laws protecting the royal family often suffer abuse from prison guards and are treated "like animals." While he now Gordon, 55, is accused of posting links to a translation of the banned biography "The King Never Smiles" in 2007 while in Colorado. Citizen of Thai ethnicity, at his home in northeastern Thailand for allegedly posting a link on his blog in 2007 to the book The King Never Smiles, a critical and, some say, unfairly harsh biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Gordon posted links to the banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej several years ago, while living in the U.S. Gordon committed the alleged crimes years Gordon's primary crime appears to be translating excerpts from the locally banned, unauthorized biography "The King Never Smiles" into the Thai language and publishing them on an online blog. 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. 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. 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. However, asks Handley, has this “really created a sustainable model of the meaningful monarchy in the age of liberal constitutional democracy? In the introduction to his biography of King Bhumibol entitled The King Never Smiles Paul M. For example, the unauthorized biography of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, The King Never Smiles by Paul M. American citizen Lerpong Wichaikhammat, aka Joe Gordon, gets a 30-month sentence for insulting Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej.