Forest and the Trees, The: A Memoir of a Man, a Family, and a Company

Norman Floyd McGowin Jr., author of The Forest and the Trees: A Memoir of a Man, a Family, and a Company, was born into a prosperous family whose W. T. Smith Lumber Company dominated the small town of Chapman in Butler County in south Alabama. Family members achieved distinction in business, politics, the arts, and society. Floyd grew up, as he put it, during “periods of our region’s and country’s history that have encompassed momentous social, political, economic, and technological change....