100 most influential Americans?

The Atlantic Monthly has posted a list of the 100 Americans who a panel of historians consider to be the most influential in American history.

I suggested adding five people to the list:

• Dale Carnegie
• Frederick Taylor
• H. L. Mencken (for his linguistic work)
• Bill Wilson
• Pete Rozelle

I also noted five people I thought could be removed:

• Stephen Foster
• Herman Melville
• Samuel Goldwyn
• Alexander Graham Bell (someone else was about to invent the telephone)
• The Wright Brothers (someone else would have invented the airplane)