Aside from respect and admiration for the strategy conceived by Thomas Dewey, the tone is not strongly in favor of the prosecution. The book makes it clear that Special Prosecutor Thomas Dewey had an innate advantage against the witnesses: social position and old money, which helped to catapult him to a position of special prosecutor in New York City.
As a result of that conclusion, the book asks the reader to weigh the power of the special prosecutor against the obscurity and powerlessness of the witnesses.