From the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy to the growing civil rights movement to the rise of the Berlin Wall and escalating Cold War-tensions, 1961 offered no shortage of compelling events that set into motion many of the issues that would come to characterize the turbulence of the 1960s. In addition to the above-mentioned events, the authors in this anthology also describe the increasing U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, the movement for social justice on college campuses, and the folk music trend that led a young Bob Dylan to New York's Greenwich Village.
