page 105 of the 532-page text), Lewis manufactures psychodramas "out of swift manipulations of scanty facts, omissions of lengthier contradictory facts, pumped-up rhetoric, and bluff," Lynn asserts. For example, Lewis strongly implies that what Wharton de- scribed as a "choking agony of terror" she suf- fered in childhood "was rooted in the traumatic scoldings, humiliations, and other abuses visited upon her a Gothic ogress of a mother." He ignores, Lynn points out,...