Joseph P. Kennedy and his wife Rosemary Kennedy pose with their nine children for this picture in 1938 at Bronxville, N.Y. From left are, seated: Eunice, Jean, Edward , Patricia, and Kathleen. Standing: Rosemary, Robert, John, Mrs. Kennedy, and Joseph, Jr. NO SALES Jean Kennedy Smith takes comfort in memory in her new book, "The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy."

... Smith places much of her narrative on Cape Cod, at the Kennedys' summer residence in Hyannis Port, Mass., or Bronxville, N.Y., the tony suburban enclave 15 miles north of Manhattan (New York City, not Boston, was the Kennedy power base in those ...