An Empire of Reason

Walter Cronkite as Self E.G. Marshall as Federalist Spokesman Rex Robbins as Isaac Roosevelt Patrick Clear as Donahue Audience Member Roberts Blossom as Melancton Smith William F. Buckley Jr. as Self John C. Vennema as Robert R. Livingston Cokie Roberts as Self - Host John Chancellor as Self Andrea Mitchell as Self Jamey Sheridan as Daniel Shays Eli Wallach as Anti-Federalist Spokesman François Giroday as Alexander Hamilton William Duell as Donahue Audience Member Mario Cuomo as Self Christopher Curry as John Lansing, Jr. Richard Bright as Donahue Audience Member Jonathan Bolt as Anti-Federalist Delegate Al Roker as Self James Rebhorn as Jesse Woodhull MacIntyre Dixon as Donahue Audience Member Phil Donahue as Self Forrest Sawyer as Self Ed Koch as Mayor of New York City, 1788 Nesbitt Blaisdell as Gov. George Clinton Drew Snyder as Demonstrator

Ellen Giffard Director, Producer Alison Ellwood Editor Muffie Meyer Director, Producer