An Empire of Reason

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

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