What is the difference between memoir & autobiography? Take a look at Privilege and Prejudice, NEW World view podcast

An autobiography is different from a memoir, though the forms seem to have merged lately.  I think of a memoir as a public diary edited yet intimate. The thoughts of the writer about their experience are primary, while an autobiography seeks to know the person through their deeds. Reading about them, you learn how a life was lived, consciously and unconsciously. You gain insight into the roles of background and opportunity in shaping character and destiny.   

There are not many large full autobiographies and this one supplies the pleasure of the unexpected. It breaks the stereotypes about Black potential and advancement.  Privilege and Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pionee, the autobiography of Clifton R. Wharton Jr.,is about a Black man whose good fortune helped him to forge breakthroughs in four separate careers. It's an exceptional story, the release below explains more.

Media interviews with Dr. Wharton:

Some new ones. Here's SUNY's Rockefeller Institute.

A Book Talk with Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. - YouTube
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Oct 13, 2015 -

MSU

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Oct 22, 2015 - MSU Presidents Simon and Wharton reflect on Wharton's memoir ... former Michigan State University president Dr. Clifton R. Wharton Jr. talks 

World View podcast from MSU.
MSU link: http://livestream.com/msualumni/Wharton

WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation With Dr. Clifton Wharton, Jr.  WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Clifton Wharton, Jr. about his new autobiography Privilege and Prejudice:The Life of a ...

THE LOPATE SHOW ON WNYC. 10/15 

http://www.wnyc.org/story/clifton-wharton-jr-privilege-and-prejudice/

http://npaper-wehaa.com/citypulse/2015/10/28/#?article=2632956MEDIA FROM THE ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE:

WMHT’s New York Now, YNNs Capital Tonight, the Times Union, and WCNY’s syndicated Capital Pressroom-October7-10, 2015.

Former SUNY Chancellor Clifton Wharton is profiled for the writing of his new book

http://nynow.org/post/video-heroin-roundtable-wharton-returns

http://www.twcnews.com/nys/capital-region/capital-tonight-interviews/2015/10/8/clifton-wharton-100815.html

http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Paul-Grondahl-Black-pioneer-Clifton-Wharton-6554822.php

http://www.wcny.org/oct-6-2015-comptroller-dinapoli-save-burden-lake-dr-clifton-wharton-jonathan-gradess/

Inside Higher Education' Q&;A with Dr. Wharton

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/06/clifton-wharton-discusses-his-new-autobiography#.VhOOwjSA6BM.mailto

Diverse Magazine writes about Bill Moyers' interview of Dr. Wharton

http://diverseeducation.com/article/77956/

Dr. Wharton's recent interview on PBS Newshour with Judy Woodruff.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/american-trailblazer-fears-losing-next-generation-black-pioneers/

“While I did not select the career goal of being a black “pioneer” or integrating the American dream, it was not long before I found myself treading where few, if any, Blacks had stepped before.”

                                                            --Clifton R. Wharton Jr.

PRIVILEGE AND PREJUDICE

The Life of a Black Pioneer

by Clifton R. Wharton Jr.

In this extraordinary new book you will step into the shoes of Dr. Clifton Wharton Jr. and experience the life of a trailblazing Black man who shattered many glass ceilings in a journey through the worlds of higher education, business, government, and the nonprofit sector. PRIVILEGE AND PREJUDICE: The Life of a Black Pioneer (Michigan State University Press; Publication date: October 1, 2015; 614 pages, $34.95 hardcover; ISBN: 978-1-61186-171-6) is a stereotype-defying autobiography. It reveals a Black man whose good fortune in birth and heritage and opportunity of time and place helped him to forge breakthroughs in four separate careers.

Clifton R. Wharton Jr. entered Harvard at age sixteen. He was the first Black student accepted to the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins, and went on to receive a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago—another first. For twenty-two years he promoted agricultural development in Latin America and Southeast Asia, earning a post as chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation. He again pioneered higher education firsts as president of Michigan State University and chancellor of the sixty-four-campus State University of New York system. As chairman and CEO of TIAA-CREF, he was the first Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company. His commitment to excellence culminated in his appointment as deputy secretary of state during the Clinton administration.

In addition to learning Dr. Wharton’s fascinating life story, you will also meet, as Dr. Wharton met, national leaders in business, philanthropy, higher education, and government -- names like Nelson and John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Theodore Hesburgh, Paul Volcker, Bill and Judith Moyers, Henry Ford II, Cy Vance, Hugh Carey, Mario Cuomo, Hubert Humphrey, Theodore Schultz, Vernon Jordan, William Friday, Milton Friedman, Kenneth Clark, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Andrew Brimmer, John Whitehead, Sol Linowitz, and Presidents Carter, Ford, and Clinton.

A remarkable story of persistence and courage, PRIVILEGE AND PREJUDICE also documents the challenges of competing in a society where obstacles, negative expectations, and stereotypes remained stubbornly in place. An absorbing and candid narrative, it describes a most unusual childhood, a remarkable family, and a historic career.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clifton R. Wharton Jr. has been a Black pioneer in numerous fields, serving as president of Michigan State University, chancellor of the State University of New York system, chairman and CEO of TIAA-CREF, and ultimately as deputy secretary of state.