An Empire of Reason

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

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