If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W. W. , the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.
You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.