An Empire of Reason

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

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