大卫·奥根·斯提尔斯
David Ogden Stiers
饰：Narrator
John Steele Gordon
饰：Himself - Commentator
菲利普·博斯科
Philip Bosco
饰：6 episodes, 1999-2001
罗伯特·A.卡洛
Robert A. Caro
饰：Himself - Commentator
Peter Hamill
饰：Himself - Commentator
Alfred Kazin
饰：Himself - Commentator
Craig Steven Wilder
饰：Himself - Commentator
凯斯·大卫
Keith David
饰：4 episodes, 1999-2001
保罗·吉亚玛提
Paul Giamatti
饰：4 episodes, 1999-2001
Daniel Czitrom
饰：Himself - Commentator
罗伯特·肖恩·莱纳德
Robert Sean Leonard
饰：4 episodes, 1999
Marshall Berman
饰：Herself - Commentator
小唐纳德·特朗普
Donald Trump Jr.
饰：Himself - Commentator
Carol Willis
饰：Herself - Commentator
Phillip Lopate
饰：Himself - Commentator
John Kuo Wei Tchen
饰：Himself - Commentator
Ruth J. Abram
饰：Herself - Commentator
Thomas Bender
饰：Himself - Commentator
Carol Berkin
饰：Herself - Commentator
詹尼安·吉劳法罗
Jane Anne Garofalo
饰：2 episodes, 1999
Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
饰：Herself - Commentator
哈里斯·于林
Harris Yulin
饰：2 episodes, 1999
Frances Golden
饰：Herself - Commentator
Cheryl Greenberg
饰：Herself - Commentator
Ada Louise Huxtable
饰：Herself - Commentator
苏珊·萨兰登
Susan Sarandon
饰：2 episodes, 2001
Mrs. Vincent Astor
饰：Herself
爱德华·赫曼
Edward Herrmann
饰：自己 Self
吉因·琼斯
Gene Jones
Isaiah Sheffer
饰：自己 Self
罗伊丝·史密斯
Lois Smith
饰：自己 Self
George Trow
George Trow
饰：Himself
路易斯·阿姆斯特朗
Louis Armstrong
饰：Himself
艾文·伯林
Irving Berlin
饰：Himself
温斯顿·伦纳德·斯宾塞·丘吉尔
Winston Churchill
饰：Himself
爱德华·肯尼迪·艾灵顿
Duke Ellington
饰：Himself
F. 斯科特·菲茨杰拉德
F. Scott Fitzgerald
饰：Himself
乔治·格什温
George Gershwin
饰：Himself
Fiorello La Guardia
饰：Himself
John V. Lindsay
饰：Himself
理查德·罗杰斯
Richard Charles Rodgers
饰：Himself
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
饰：Himself
Alfred E. Smith
Alfred E. Smith
饰：Himself
Jimmy Walker
饰：Himself
Eric Lipton
饰：Himself
George W.S. Trow
饰：自己
迈克·华莱士
Mike Wallace
饰：Self - Commentator,7 episodes, 1999-2001,
Robert A.M. Stern
饰：Self - Commentator,7 episodes, 1999-2001,
埃里·瓦拉赫
Eli Wallach
饰：5 episodes, 1999-2001
大卫·麦卡洛
David McCullough
饰：Self - Commentator,5 episodes, 1999-2001,
凯莉·索恩
Callie Thorne
饰：4 episodes, 1999-2001
鲁迪·朱利安尼
Rudolph W. Giuliani
饰：Self - Commentator,4 episodes, 1999-2001,
斯波尔丁·格雷
Spalding Rockwell Gray
饰：Self - Comentator,3 episodes, 1999-2001,
David Levering Lewis
David Levering Lewis
饰：Self - Commentator,3 episodes, 1999-2001,
弗兰西斯·斯特恩哈根
Frances Sternhagen
饰：3 episodes, 1999
卡勒伯·卡尔
Caleb Carr
饰：Self - Commentator,3 episodes, 1999,
安娜·昆德兰
Anna Quindlen
饰：Self - Commentator,2 episodes, 2001,
Ray Suarez
Ray Suarez
饰：Self - Commentator,2 episodes, 2001,
琼·艾伦
Joan Allen
饰：1 episode, 1999
罗恩·西维尔
Ronald Arthur Silver
饰：1 episode, 1999
托尼·库什纳
Tony Kushner
饰：Self - Commentator,1 episode, 1999,
弗兰克·麦考特
Frank McCourt
饰：1 episode, 1999
Andrei Codrescu
饰：1 episode, 1999
Kathy Peiss
饰：Self - Commentator,1 episode, 1999,
菲利普·帕特
Philippe Petit
饰：Self - Commentator,1 episode, 2003,
Paul Goldberger
Paul Goldberger
饰：Self - Commentator,1 episode, 2003,
皮特·哈米尔
Pete Hamill
饰：Self - Commentator,6 episodes, 1999-2003,
Brendan Gill
饰：Self - Commentator,6 episodes, 1999-2001,
乔治·普林普顿
George Plimpton
饰：5 episodes, 1999-2001
Calvin O. Butts III
Calvin O. Butts III
饰：Self - Commentator,5 episodes, 1999-2001,
弗兰·勒博维茨
Fran Lebowitz
饰：Self - Commentator,4 episodes, 1999-2001,
艾伦·金斯堡
Allen Ginsberg
饰：Self - Commentator,3 episodes, 1999-2001,
詹姆斯·哈泽尔丁
James Hazeldine
饰：3 episodes, 1999
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
饰：Self - Commentator,3 episodes, 1999,
Frederic Kimball
饰：2 episodes, 1999
Margo Jefferson
饰：Self - Commentator,2 episodes, 1999,
大卫·马古利斯
David Margulies
饰：2 episodes, 1999
Edward I. Koch
饰：Self - Commentator,2 episodes, 2001,
Bella Abzug
饰：Self - Commentator,2 episodes, 2001,
马丁·斯科塞斯
Martin Scorsese
饰：Self - Commentator,1 episode, 1999,
乔·莫顿
Joe Morton
饰：1 episode, 1999
唐纳德·特朗普
Donald Trump
饰：Self - Commentator,1 episode, 1999,
E·L·多克托罗
E.L. Doctorow
饰：Self - Commentator,1 episode, 1999,
Marlena Grzaslewicz
饰：1 episode, 1999
弗兰克佩莱格里诺
Frank Pellegrino
饰：Self - Commentator,1 episode, 2001,
尼亚尔·费格森
Niall Ferguson
饰：Self - Commentator,1 episode, 2003,
James Glanz
饰：Self - Commentator,1 episode, 2003,