Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Part One My Toughest “Self-Splits” and What Produced Them
5. Chapter One A Devout Mormon Is Challenged by Rival Selves 3
6. Chapter Two A Pious Moralist Confronts a Cheater 33
7. Chapter Three The Cheerful Poser Comforts a Griever 49
8. Chapter Four My Many Selves Confront the Man Who Believes in LOVE 77
9. Chapter Five Ambition vs. Teaching for the Love of It 95
10. Chapter six The Hypocritical Mormon Missionary Becomes a Skillful Masker, and Discovers “Hypocrisy-Upward” 117
11. Chapter Seven The Puritan Preaches at the Luster While the Hypocrite Covers the Show 135
12. Chapter Eight The Lover Becomes a Trapped Army Private 153
13. Chapter Nine An Egalitarian Quarrels Scornfully with a Hypocritical Bourgeois 167
14. Chapter Ten A College Dean Struggles to Escape 181
15. Part Two The Splits Multiply—in Somewhat Less Torturous Form
16. Chapter Eleven The Quarrel between the Cheater and the Moralist Produces Gullible-Booth 199
17. Chapter Twelve A Wandering Generalist Longs to Be a True Scholar 209
18. Chapter Thirteen A Would-be Novelist Mourns behind the Would-be Lover and Would-be Scholar 221
19. Chapter Fourteen The Committed Father and Husband, as Lover, Shouts “For Shame!” at All the Other Selves 235
20. Chapter Fifteen The Man of Peace Tries to Tame the Slugger 251
21. Interlude 263
22. Part Three Aging, Religion, and—Surprise!—the Quest for a Plausible Harmony
23. Chapter Sixteen The Old Fart Debates with a Bunch of Young Booths, While Posing as Younger Than 84 271
24. Chapter Seventeen Harmony at Last? 289
25. Index 310