[AntiGuv]

I confess I didn't know who James Gordon Bennett was. I'd never heard of Samuel Gompers either, that I can recall (and that's a fairly distinctive name). Albert Einstein is listed way too low, and is in glaring conflict with The 100 Most Influential Persons in History fwiw, where he's more properly listed at #10 overall and as the #1 American.

[Torie]

I don't consider Einstein an American (he did all his stuff while living in Europe), and the bomb would have been invented with or without him.

[Torie]

As for Gompers, you just skipped that particular day of your juior high school history class. His name was in it, when discussing the US labor movement.