Carl N. Degler

Carl Neumann Degler (February 6, 1921 – December 27, 2014) was an American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He was the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Emeritus at Stanford University. Quotes The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage. Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America (New York: Harper & Bros., 1959), ch. 10, sec. 4 (p. 296) External links Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America, rev. ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1970) Category:Historians from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Academics from the United States Category:Pulitzer Prize winners Category:Columbia University alumni Category:Stanford University faculty Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:People from Newark Category:1921 births Category:2014 deaths