Ted Kennedy may not have been as popular or successful as his big brothers John and Bobby, but he did grow up with them. And that alone is worth a cha-ching book deal.

The Massachusetts Senator received an advance of more than $8 million from Grand Central Publishing to write an autobiography. That’s just behind Tony Blair, who bankrolled $9 million for his memoirs and Bill Clinton, who got $10 million.

But considering the public’s unquenchable interest in Camelot and its general apathy toward the Israel-Palestine conflict, Ted Kennedy got robbed.