m. the second son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald; Rose, in turn, was the eldest child of John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a prominent Boston political figure who was the city's mayor and a three-term member of Congress. Kennedy lived in Brookline for his first ten years of life. He attended Brookline's public Edward Devotion School from kindergarten through the beginning of 3rd grade, then Noble and Greenough Lower School and its successor, the Dexter School, a private school for boys, through 4th grade. In September 1927, Kennedy moved with his family to a rented 20-room mansion in Riverdale, Bronx, New York City, then two years later moved five miles (8km)east to a 21-room mansion on a six-acre estate in Bronxville, New York, purchased in May 1929. He was a member of Scout Troop 2 at Bronxville from 1929 to 1931 and was to be the first Boy Scout to become President
For additional funding I am indebted to the National Endowment for the Humanities (#RA20169 95). Acknowledgements for the Second Edition Thanks to editor Kate Ahl for her patient help, and to Meg Wallace for a good deal of research as well as editing and indexing. Thanks also to many readers of the first edition, who have offered comments and suggestions from around the world. I am especially grateful to Mike Harnish (again!), Patrick Greenough, and Mark Phelan, who gave me very detailed comments that have led to many improvements, including the correction of some errors. Many of the comments I have received urged me to add a chapter or section on this or that additional topic. Those were good ideas, but space limitations forbade my adopting more than a handful of them; my apologies. 1 Introduction: meaning and reference Overview That certain kinds of marks and noises have meanings, and that we human
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