I wouldn't wish it otherwise. After all, Ted Kennedy didn't achieve the presidency so he was never a war criminal. And he helped deregulate interstate trucking and airlines and liberalize immigration.

That said, younger readers might like to get up to speed on his youthful misadventures by reading Zad Rust's best seller from 1971, the Tedrows' expose from 1976, or Leo Damore's indictment from 1988.