Edited sentence: "Treason" is a poorly researched book, directly contradicted by numerous first hand accounts by Republicans of the era in which she claims expertise.Arthur Watkins documented the abuses of McCarthy and Whittaker Chambers.Charles Potter and Sen.Coulter ignores this body of work.He recounts the battles within the Eisenhower administration to deal with "the McCarthy Problem".Margaret Chase Smith, Sen.McCarthy, a diagnosed psychopath was marginalized by his Republican president, censured and died an alcoholic in 1957.President Eisenhower's Chief of Staff Sherman Adams wrote his memoir in 1961, entitled "First Hand Report"