Peter CoyoteSelf - Narrator (voice) Daniel OkrentSelf - Author Pete HamillSelf - Historian Noah FeldmanSelf - Legal Scholar Philip BoscoReader (voice) Patricia ClarksonReader / Carrie Nation (voice) Kevin ConwayReader (voice) Blythe DannerReader (voice) Paul GiamattiReader / George Remus (voice) Tom HanksReader / Roy Olmstead (voice) Jeremy IronsReader (voice) Samuel L. JacksonReader (voice) John LithgowReader / H.L. Mencken (voice) Amy MadiganReader (voice) Carolyn McCormickReader (voice) Oliver PlattReader / Al Capone (voice) Campbell ScottReader / F. Scott Fitzgerald (voice) Frances SternhagenReader (voice) Joanne TuckerReader (voice) Sam WaterstonReader (voice) Freddie JohnsonSelf - Historian Studs TerkelSelf - Writer Franklin D. RooseveltSelf (archive footage) Hymie WeissSelf (archive footage) Buddy SquiresDirector Of Photography Maria TorfeldMakeup Artist Wynton MarsalisMusic Arranger David ObermeyerSound Recordist Dominick TavellaSound Re-Recording Mixer Robert SilverthorneSound Recordist Scott HarberSound Recordist John ZeccaSound Recordist 
