Michael J. Tougias is the NY Times best-selling author and master chronicler of the harrowing disaster survival and rescue story.  One of his books,The Finest Hours,  featured the most famous rescue in Coast Guard history off the coast of Chatham and was made into a popular Disney movie starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck. (The amazingly small Coast Guard boat that survived the blizzard in this 1952 story is docked at its summer birth at Rock Harbor in Orleans and is available for viewing.)  Tougias's recent book builds on his fascination with extreme survival stories and the personal characteristics of the people who endure and make it through. The book offers both "edge of your seat" stories and in depth interviews on how the survivors coped with overwhelming circumstances.  Tougias finds common threads that tie these survivor stories and offers important ideas for coping with adversity large or small.  Books will be available at this event.   

Michael J. Tougias is a New York Times Bestselling author and co-author of Above & Beyond: JFK's Most Dangerous Spy Mission (new in 2018), So Close to Home, The Finest Hours ( a Disney movie), Ten Hours Until Dawn, Fatal Forecast, and A Storm Too Soon.

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