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In this particular evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the previous making it through child of Joe and Rose Kennedy, provides an romantic and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings, guided by their parents, laughed and discovered a great deal under one roof. Prompted by interesting tidbits in the newspapers, Rose and Joe Kennedy would cause questions with their nine children at the dinner table. "Where could Amelia Earhart have vanished?" "How could you address this horrible drought?" "What could you do about the troop motions in Europe?" It had been a nightly custom that helped shape the Kennedys into who they might become. Before Joe and Rose's children emerged as market leaders on the globe stage, they were a loving circle of brothers and sisters who played soccer, swam, read, and pursued their passions. These were children influenced by parents who instilled in them a solid work ethic, a profound love of country, and an intense gratitude for the sacrifices their ancestors designed to come to America. "No whining in this house!" was their father's regular refrain. It had been his way of reminding them never to complain, to be thankful for what they had, and to surrender. In her remarkable memoir, Kennedy Smith - the previous surviving sibling - revisits this singular time in their lives. Filled with attractive anecdotes and vignettes, The Nine of Us vividly depicts this large, close-knit family throughout a different time in American history. Kennedy Smith offers indelible, elegantly rendered portraits of her larger-than-life siblings and her parents. "They understood how to treat our hurts, bind our wounds, pay attention to our woes, and help us take it easy," she writes. "We were lucky children indeed."
