The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul M. Handley

The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej

Paul M. Handley

499 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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The first independent biography of Thailand’s monarch, whose image as a benign Buddhist god-king masks one of the world’s most politically powerful thrones Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the th...

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