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The king never smiles : a biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej /
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. This book tells the unexpected story of his life and 60-year rule: how a Western-raised boy came to be seen by his people a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A dhammaraja from America
- From pure blood to dynastic failure
- 1932: revolution and exile
- Restoration to regicide
- Revenge of the monarchists, 1946-49
- Romance in Lausanne: Bhumibol prepared to reign
- The Cold War, 1952-57
- Field Marshal Sarit: the palace finds its strongman
- Going to war
- Reborn Democrat?
- Royal vigilantism and massacre, 1974-76
- What went wrong: cosmic panic, business failure, midcareer crisis
- Who's the enemy?
- In the king's image: the perfect general prem
- Family headaches
- Another coup from the throne
- May 1992: October 1976 redux
- Sanctifying royalty and stonewalling democracy in the 1990s
- Another family annus horribilis
- The economic crash and Bhumibol's new theory
- Going into seclusion: can the monarchy survive Bhumibol?