- Harriet Ross Tubman — escaped slave, put her life on the line to help more escape; women’s rights leader
- Harry Truman — among the top Presidents surely
- Helen Keller — overcame obstacles most of us can’t even imagine
- Henry Ford — for the $5 dollar day and the assembly line; pay people enough so they can buy your product
- Hillary Rodham Clinton — not yet
- Howard Hughes — too many fatal flaws
- Hugh Hefner — for publishing photos of nude women; I don’t think so; Hefner is on the list but not Hearst, nor Pulitzer, nor Luce, go figure
- Jackie Robinson (Jack Roosevelt Robinson) — superb athlete but makes the list for grace under fire
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis — points for style and grace; but nothing more
- Jesse Owens — rose to the occasion and dispelled the Aryan myth in front of the world
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I like your comments, and agree with them.
This list is putrid. Hello? James Madison?
Without the Constitution, we wouldn’t have the freedom to (apparently) worship publishers of pornography, self-promoting real estate magnates, and moderately talented performers.
The list is silly – it’s a popularity contest.
I would say one thing in favor of Hefner: his magazine, in its day, did advance a more frank and honest discussion of sex and sexuality, and I would argue was among the first truly liberal (in the classical-liberal-what-some-call-social-libertarian-sense) magazines that pressed personal freedom (yes, this included sexual but also political and social) and helped spawn a revolution that has helped ease some of the repression we suffered in years prior.
And the girls in the magazine are HOT!
O.K. that’s two things