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Jefferson in the Furnace and The Committee of Five
Philadelphia, summer 1776. The city was a furnace, and the men inside Carpenters’ Hall were coming apart.
While Thomas Jefferson sat alone in a rented room on the second floor of a brick house at Seventh and Market, sweating through his shirt and swatting flies off wet ink, the Continental Congress downstairs was fracturing under the weight of fear, pride, and irreconcilable visions of the future.
This is the third episode in the Independence Masons series, a special run of long-form podcasts marking the road to the 250th anniversary of American independence.
Jefferson had been given the task…
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