
Writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer John Meacham offers his timely and invaluable insights into the country’s current political and historical moment by examining its past. Based on his 2018 bestseller of the same name.
Cast

Jon Meacham
Self

John Lewis
Self (archive footage)

George Takei
Self

Lisa Tetrault
Self

Donald Tamaki
Self
Dale Minami
Self
Janice Kelsey
Self

Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)

Jon Stewart
Self (archive footage)

John Grisham
Self

John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)

George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)

George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)

Jeb Bush
Self (archive footage)

Joseph McCarthy
Self (archive footage)

Edward R. Murrow
Self (archive footage)

Peter Jennings
Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)

Mitch McConnell
Self (archive footage)

Charles A. Lindbergh
Self (archive footage)
Fritz Kuhn
Self (archive footage)
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