A President Is Born Author:Fannie Hurst 1928. American author, Hurst is noted for her sympathetic, sentimental novels. The book begins: Twenty-two sat down to dinner on a Thanksgiving afternoon at four, 1903, in the House on Sycamore Street. It might have been the house in Downing Street so far as its centrifugal significance was ground into the consciousness of the men, women and chi... more »ldren gathered about its board. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.« less