In 1999, Friedlander and Context Books came to public attention when he acquired a manuscript from Theodore J. Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The book, in which Kaczynski argued that he was not insane, as his family had claimed during his trial, was ready to be published by Context Books when Kaczynski refused to paraphrase some letters which he did not own the copyright to. The book was never published because of these copyright issues.
