An Empire of Reason

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

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