style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">A classic Bill Bryson sentence flies like a curveball, never landing quite where you’d expect. “For Warren G Harding, the summer of 1927 was not a good one, which was perhaps a little surprising since he had been dead for nearly four years by then.” Excellent. Here’s another: “Thompson was an oaf from head to toe and ear to ear, but his supporters never held that against him.”