After the Revolution follows the lives of Jewish-American writers in the 1940's and 1950's who were both political and literary, and whose writing grew out of their politics. Mark Shechner shows how the ferment of post-Marxist thought in those decades spurred the writings of Lionel Trilling, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Issac Rosenfeld, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth (cover).