The Mexicans

This work is written for the “young adult” at the high school level. It tells Mexico’s story through the eyes of Beto, a Mexican teenager who writes to his friend in the United States. Nevertheless, Harold Coy’s book should not be lightly dismissed; on the contrary, within its own limits this is a well-written, instructive summary of current knowledge. Unfortunately its central theme— “how a vigorous people won back their country from its conquerors and transformed it into a modem nation”-perpetuates the official liberal interpretation of Mexican history which is being seriously challenged by modem historians.