Bychowski expresses admiration for Zeligs's Friendship and Fratricide: An Analysis of Whitaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. The relationship of Chambers to Hiss is understood in the book to have been determined by Chambers's ambivalent feelings toward his brother, Richard. Bychowski deplores the fact that Zeligs did not testify at the Hiss trial. Such testimony might have changed the outcome of the trial and in this way 'taken some of the paranoid wind out of the McCarthy era'.