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

King Never Smiles from English into Thai and posted it on his blog. Thailand has the world's harshest laws on lèse-majesté, or insulting the monarchy, and many of its people regard King Bhumibol Adulyadej. King Bhumibol Adulyadej : Thailand's Guiding Light (Bangkok: Post Publishing, 1996). 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. American citizen Lerpong Wichaikhammat, aka Joe Gordon, gets a 30-month sentence for insulting Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Today, almost 80 years since the fall of absolute monarchy, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the grandson of King Chulalongkorn, who was earlier successful in restoring and strengthening the power and prerogatives of the royal institution, is now facing an emerging anti-monarchy sentiment that has swept across the . 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. Paul Handley, in his revealing book about King Bhumibol, The King Never Smiles (2006), rightly explains that the King has always been a political player. 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. Handley, The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulaydej (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006). Gordon posted links to the banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej several years ago while living in the U.S. US Citizen of Thai origin, Joe Gordon was sentenced to spend 2.5 years in Thai jail for translating and posting sections of a banned biography of the popular Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej. December 9, 2011 Thai-born Lerpong Wichaikhammat, 55, a U.S.