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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aHurst, Fannie,
_d1889-1968
245 1 2 _aA president is born
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-28
508 _aMatthew Sleadd and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"A president is born" by Fannie Hurst is a novel written in the early 20th century. It appears as a fictional family chronicle tracing the formative years of a future U.S. president, David Schuyler, within a bustling Midwestern clan whose center of gravity is the indomitable sister, Rebekka, and the House on Sycamore Street in Centralia. The opening of the novel plunges into a crowded Thanksgiving at the Schuyler home in 1903, where the Old Gentleman shocks the family by announcing that his wife, Mathilda, is pregnant—an event that heralds the birth of David. We then shift to young Davey’s earthy, sensory childhood—his “Indian in the Corn” game among husk tepees, a landscape and homelife rendered so vividly that a later campaign-train vignette briefly foreshadows his national future. Next, Rebekka’s model farm takes focus: she is tireless, efficient, and commanding, contrasted with her charming but languid artist-husband, Winslow. Davey grows up between two homes: Rebekka’s disciplined, productive farm and the Schuyler house, navigating kin dynamics that include his dreamy, fragile nephew Leslie. Rebekka quietly manages family crises—fielding party-line phone calls, overruling a niece’s risky outing, confronting an aging alcoholic farmhand—and ends the section with a hearty supper tableau that showcases the household’s bonds, tensions, and the boy’s sturdy appetite. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1928
653 _aBildungsromans
653 _aBoys -- Fiction
653 _aFamilies -- Fiction
653 _aIllinois -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
653 _aChildren of immigrants -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/presidentisborn0000fann/page/n3/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78566
999 _c119284
_d119284