Ted Kennedy was the last surviving Kennedy brother, the man who should have been president but was destroyed by Chappaquiddick, and the senator who built the most effective legislative operation in modern American history. He turned personal catastrophe into political productivity, passing more major legislation than almost any senator in history while carrying the weight of a family legacy defined by assassination, scandal, and impossible expectations.

This episode traces Kennedy from the youngest-brother childhood through the 1962 Senate win, Chappaquiddick, the failed 1980 presidential campaign, and the forty-seven-year Senate career that became his true legacy.

• Growing up as the youngest Kennedy and the expectations that came with the family name
• Chappaquiddick — the accident, the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, and the po ...