Discover the Networks provides a valuable overview of Ted Kennedy's life. It doesn't omit the more unsavory and hypocritical elements of his life.
Update II- 8/27/09 - Carl M. Cannon - "Mary Jo Kopechne and Chappaquiddic: America's Selective Memory
Update III 8/27/09 - Robert P. George - Chappaquiddic Revisited [This is a must-read!]
Update IV 8/30/09 - Dr. Zero posts a hard-hitting negative evaluation of Sen. Kennedy and Democratic voters. See also Mark Steyn, "Airbrushing out Mary Jo Kopechne: Only a Kennedy could get away with it.
Update I: Victor Davis Hanson writes with sensitive and appropriate fellow-feeling of the passing of Ted Kennedy:
The country sends its condolences to the Kennedy family, as the last of the three prominent Kennedy lions passes from the American political scene. I have special empathy with the Kennedy family, since my mother — an appellate justice — also died prematurely from a cancerous brain tumor; the hope that a family invests in all sorts of cutting-edge treatments, the courage a patient shows in undergoing them, and the nefarious nature of such an insidious disease in the end become heart-rending — and overwhelming. At times such as these, it matters little that many of us disagreed with much of the vision of Ted Kennedy — nil nisi bonum de mortuis dicere. He had an incredible near-half-century run in the Senate, suffered terribly from the loss of his three brothers, and was a powerful and deeply sincere advocate for liberal causes respected by his peers of both parties. Requiescat in pacem.