This week's guest on "Report from Santa Fe" is Laurence Gonzales, author of "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why," and the sequel "Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience." His newest book is "Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival," about the historic plane crash in 1989 in Sioux City, Iowa, where 184 out of 296 passengers survived. Deep Survival was the first scientific book on survival. It set the bar and started a trend that spawned a spate of imitations. Since its publication, this best-seller has been embraced by everyone from the head of training for the Navy SEALs, to the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Its appeal has been so broad and deep because the principles in Deep Survival apply to any challenge that life poses, from coping with a financial crisis to battling a life-threatening illness or boardroom takeovers. Gonzales has won many awards, including two National Magazine Awards and the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He has appeared as a speaker before groups ranging from the Santa Fe Institute to Legg Mason Capital Management, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also on the adjunct faculty at Northwestern University in the Medill School of Journalism. He is a fellow of the Santa Fe Institute. His newest book "Flight 232" about the crash of United Flight 232, gives a unique 360-degree reconstruction of the crash of a fully-loaded jumbo jet. Twenty-five years after the disaster, this unforgettable drama, told in meticulous detail, shows the triumph of heroism over catastrophe and of human ingenuity over technological breakdown. Guests: Lorene Mills (Host), Laurence Gonzales.
