NY, McGraw-Hill, (1974). The companion book to the Free To Be...You and Me record album and television special, all of which were designed to expand gender roles and spread the message that it's okay to not conform to the stereotypes of what a boy or a girl should be. Conceived by Marlo Thomas; introductions by Thomas and Gloria Steinem; afterword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; contributions by Judy Blume, Lucille Clifton, Shel Silverstein, Carl Reiner, Anne Roiphe, Joyce Johnson, Judith Viorst, Charlotte Zolotow, and many others. A wildly successful venture, in terms of reach and popularity, from a bygone (pre-backlash) era that also saw the debut of Ms. Magazine, the introduction of Title IX, the passage in Congress of the (never ratified) Equal Rights Amendment, and Roe v. Wade. Scarce: this was a children's book, one that Thomas, in her introduction, hopes will become "a wreck of a book [that has been read] borrowed, reread, sung, felt and understood," which is exactly what happened to most copies. Slight shelf wear to spine base, else a fine copy in a very good, price-clipped and spine-sunned dust jacket nicked at the crown and with an abrasion on the rear panel. [#036507] SOLD