Pacific Affairs, March 22nd, 2007
THE KING NEVER SMILES: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej. By Paul M. Handley. New Haven (CT) and London (England): Yale University Press, 2006. xi, 499 pp. US$38.00, cloth. ISBN 0-300-10682-3.
Handley's controversial biography of the king was banned in Thailand before publication. Negotiations also ensured that Through negotiation, publication was also delayed so that the book would not hit the shelvesemerge until after the celebrations marking of the sixtieth anniversary of King Bhumibol"s asccenssion to the throne. The manuscript was nevertheless surreptitiously circulated in T...
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