Thomas Jefferson's Hypocrisy?

So I am reading this book:   American Sphinx: The character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis, a Yale guy who won a National Book Award for this book; and a Pulitzer Prize in 2001.
You would think I would be impressed, but not so fast....

Excerpts from the book below strike me as rather creepy, no matter how Ellis tries to "spin" the facts he put together to honor his hero.
The author commenting on Thomas Jefferson's psyche.       
      "both the external and internal diplomacy grew out 
      of his deep distaste for sharp disagreement and his 
      bedrock belief that harmony was matures' way 
      of signaling the    arrival of truth. More self-deception 
      than calculated hypocrisy, it was nonetheless a 
      disconcerting form of psychological agility that 
      would make it possible for Jefferson to walk past 
      the slave quarters on Mulberry Row at Monticello 
      thinking about mankind's brilliant prospects without 
      any sense of contradiction. Though it make him deaf 
      to most forms of irony, it had the decided political 
      advantage of   banishing doubt or disabling ambiguity 
      from his   mental process.  
      He had the kind of duplicity possible only 
      in the pure of heart."  
      
I think the author is slightly delusional when he repeatedly sights Jefferson's hypocrisy as "pure of heart." It makes me laugh out loud.
Jefferson's other self, as the author likes to refer to Jefferson, as if he is two men; instead of one hypocritical man, reveals his egotistical self-serving nature. If he is not a hypocrite; then he is mentally ill.
   His "pure of heart" statement comes on the heels of...
    "Perhaps the most graphic example of this capacity to 
      keep  secrets from himself dates from August 1786. 
      A fellow American slaveowner traveling to France 
      inquired about the French law prohibiting slavery 
      and allowing any slave brought into the country to 
      claim his   freedom.
      'I have made inquiries,' Jefferson explained, 
     'on the subject of the negro boy you brought, and find 
     that the laws of France give him freedom if he claims it, 
     and that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to interrupt 
     the course of the law.'
     But there was a way around or perhaps over the law:
     'I have known an instance,' Jefferson observed discreetly, 
     'where a  person bringing in a slave, and saying 
     nothing bout it, 
     has not been disturbed in his possession.'
     If one simply avoids mentioning the subject 'the young 
    negro will not probably...think of claiming his freedom.'
    The  instance Jefferson was referring to almost 
    certainly involved his own black servant James Hemings. 
    It is almost equally certain that Jefferson felt no twinge 
    of conscience about recommending a policy of secrecy, 
    which merely mirrored the deeper secrecies he routinely 
     practiced inside himself. " 
My theory has always been: For every action; there is an opposite and equal reaction. Whether in physics or our emotions.

When Jefferson became the visionary for a perfect government for the white man; he also swung in the opposite direction just as far; and as equal, by deceiving his own slaves of their opportunity to be freed in France. 
 
When it came to his love life and intimacies

    'It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Jefferson 
    who so   remarkably adept at crafting his literary 
    person to suit the audience, simply lacked the ability
    to convey affection to his own children.  This does 
    not mean he was an unloving and uncaring father. 
    His idealization of domestic bliss as the ultimate 
    source of his personal happiness was certainly sincere, 
    and his children were integral parts of that protected space 
    where the ideal lived in his imagination. But in real life, 
    in the day to day interactions with his flesh and blood 
    daughters, he was incapable of intimacy.".......
   "An earlier letter to Polly strung together the same 
    homilies on   hard work and in a particularly insensitive passage, 
   seemed to say that his own love was conditional upon 
   her measuring up. ...Remember too as a constant 
   charge not to go out without your bonnet because it will 
   make you very ugly and then we should not love you so much."
The author at one point said that Jefferson's home was presented to visitors as an idealistic place where one could see one daughter playing the piano while he helped the other daughter compose letters.  
I personally think Jefferson's imagination made his daughters objects for his own idealistic lifestyle which was more self serving; than a loving concern for his daughters. His behavior was polar opposite to other women in his life which was also self-serving.
       "If his letters to his daughters have a lecturish, almost wooden tone and seem hurried and obligatory, his correspondence with women his own age is highly personal, soft to the point of sentimentality and carefully crafted."
I think God selected Jefferson because he had a voice in congress, to write the Declaration of Independence.  Most of Jefferson's words were regurgitated from lesser known patriots who had no voice. We all learn from others, as did Jefferson when he incorporated the words of fellow patriots. He still had the feelings and thoughts for the vision of a perfect government. He was able to capture the spirit of the American Patriots.
But at the same time:
When we try to be too perfect; we find that the pendulum swings in the opposite direction with equal force, making us too flawed; possibly a hypocrite. 
Life is full of paradoxes.  For every lighted side of an object; there is a dark side. 
What I have learned by reading this book:  In order to be as good as I should be with little hypocrisy in my life; I must keep my pendulum from swinging too far out in either direction.   I will neither be extremely good; nor extremely bad; but only 
mediocre.