An Empire of Reason

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

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