The Fourteen Points (novel)

**The Fourteen Points: The Last 100 Years Since the Treaty of Versailles** is an alternate history novel written by writer Phillip A. Leavenworth. It is written as a nonfiction book within the alternate timeline of his body of work. The scope of the novel covers the period between the alternate 1920 and 2020.

## Chapters

* Introduction: Before Versailles
* Chapter 1: 1920s
* Chapter 2: 1930s
* Chapter 3: 1940s
* Chapter 4: 1950s
* Chapter 5: 1960s
* Chapter 6: 1970s
* Chapter 7: 1980s
* Chapter 8: 1990s
* Chapter 9: 2000s
* Chapter 10: 2010s
* Conclusion: 100 Years After Versailles

***For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga*** is an alternate history novel published in 1973 by the American business historian Robert Sobel. The novel depicts an alternate world where the American Revolution was unsuccessful. Although it is fiction, the novel takes the form of a work of nonfiction, specifically an undergraduate-level history of North America from 1763 to 1971. The fictional history includes a full scholarly apparatus, including a bibliography of 475 works and 860 footnotes citing imaginary books and articles; three appendices listing the leaders of the Confederation of North America, the United States of Mexico, and Kramer Associates; an index; a contemporary map of the alternate North America; and a preface thanking imaginary people for their assistance with the book. The book also includes a critique of itself by Professor Frank Dana, an imaginary Mexican historian with two books listed in the bibliography.

***A People's History of the United States*** is a 1980 nonfiction book (updated in 2009) by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn presented what he considered to be a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country". Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties.

*A People's History* has been assigned as reading in many high schools and colleges across the United States. It has also resulted in a change in the focus of historical work, which now includes stories that previously were ignored. The book was a runner-up in 1980 for the National Book Award. It frequently has been revised, with the most recent edition covering events through 2005. In 2003, Zinn was awarded the *Prix des Amis du Monde Diplomatique* for the French version of this book *Une histoire populaire des États-Unis.* More than two million copies have been sold.

In a 1998 interview, Zinn said he had set "quiet revolution" as his goal for writing *A People's History*. "Not a revolution in the classical sense of a seizure of power, but rather from people beginning to take power from within the institutions. In the workplace, the workers would take power to control the conditions of their lives." In 2004, Zinn edited a primary source companion volume with Anthony Arnove, entitled *Voices of a People's History of the United States*.

*A People's History of the United States* has been criticized by various pundits and fellow historians. Critics, including professor Chris Beneke and Randall J. Stephens, assert blatant omissions of important historical episodes, uncritical reliance on biased sources, and failure to examine opposing views. Conversely, others have defended Zinn and the accuracy and intellectual integrity of his work.