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Always fun. This time it's The Atlantic, with its list of the 100 Most Influential Americans. Okay, I agree with the top three -- Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. But they are in exactly the wrong order. Didn't Jefferson have to invent America before Washington could deliver it or Lincoln could save it? And how about number 4 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Please! How could FDR trample the Constitution until James Madison wrote it -- yet Madison only makes number 13?

Ayn Rand didn't make the list -- though it's hard to think of too many more influential twentieth century intellectuals. But in a sidebar list of "Influential Architects," Rand's greatest character, Howard Roark, is honored -- the only fictional person to make any list.

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