Mexico is always a controversial subject in America. From California Governor Pete Wilson's Proposition 187 to the collapse of the peso in the early 1990s, Americans are hungry to understand more about this complex and important neighbor. Mexican Lives is a critically celebrated volume of interviews with Mexican men and women. Mexico expert Judith Adler Hellman takes us into the homes and workplaces of fifteen Mexicans who describe how they live, work, and view the future of their country.