we are with professor of babcock with his book. let's start with your subtitle. having the experience to write the titles that get change, that developed during publication. but it is fair and accurate representation that the negative 10 america is a christian nation and is subject to be challenged. to drive that the heart what does that mean that america is a christian nation? in his crisp gen own the in the culture we need to understand what that means. >> host: give examples. >> is a store called commonplace the country was founded by pilgrims who came with religious orientation. that is the story we've learned and elementary school. our institutions, framework, it is not controversial the say that they were framed by a fed judeo-christian ethic that is a cultural argument to make but at the end of the day we just offend cultural values. i have been called to speak with conviction and speaking as a christian who happens to be an american. i traveled widely throughout the world and i speak at to churches and work with those of you have been to be in the hands a

. >> i have to tell you the best story about this because linda babcock is one of the best negotiation trainers in the world and the only difference about women and men in negotiating that i thought she got so well is that if women negotiate tough, it doesn't have the same effect as if a man negotiates tough. so she says and i think it's nice because it changes your face that when women negotiate tough, they have to be relentlessly pleasant. you know? and it's kind of a confidence thing and it's kind of a tough thing that doesn't, you know, hurt. and i just thought that was a marvelous thing that she teaches women, if you're going to be tough, just be relentlessly pleasant. >> how about over this way. >> making these problems -- thinking about them internally like you've been saying, and like trying to make the change happen internally, how can -- what can a man do to basically work through some of these biases that we tend to have that we've grown up with for so long? what are some techniques we can use like from a more masculine perspective, i guess, to adjust, you know, what you wan

another black abolitionist by the name of charles babcock who was based out of boston. but they traveled down to belize. they were presented to the governor. they toured the colonial assembly, met with several members of the government, who were actually quite pleased because the colonial assembly had black members at the time, which was very rare for the world. this was one of the appeals of belize as a colony. they were later taken up the coast and inland to the site of the british honduras company's land. this is actually a picture of the ruins of a sugar mill in belize that was on the land of the british honduras company. they had a sugar farm that they were going to partition and give to the settlers. and menard toured and visited this site. we have his report -- or a letter that mentions that he arrived at this particular location, saw sugar production under way, saw the construction of buildings under way. and he comes back and reports to the u.s. government everything that he's seen. this site dates to around 1860 and was in operation until 1874 down there in be

this turn and it is a very sharp turn and over goes the truck, the driver telling photographer ian babcock he was not going too fast he's not sure what happened. chp says the back trailer went and the rest followed. they are going to wrap it up try to straighten it up and have this cleared in maybe an hour and a half from now. here's what the chp says is the plan. >>> the dried concrete in the trailers the trailers are not breached or cracked open at this time. hopefully, it remains that way. >> reporter: what do you have leaking and how bad is it? >> only 5 10 gallons of motor oil leaking out of the engine no diesel fuel leaking. everything else is intact. >> reporter: there's good news. the fuel of this truck is not leaking at this point. as we heard the powder cement in the trailers not liking. they've they got to right these things and get them off the road hopefully the powder will not start coming out or problem with the tpwaoul -- with the fuel in the truck itself. 85 off-ramp of 280 southbound closed until an hour and a half perhaps if everything goes as scheduled we'll keep you po

host: living with faith in a nation that was never under god, liberty university professor michael babcock is the author. >> coming up next on book tv, "after words" with guest host jay nordlinger. he discusses his book "peace they say: a history of the nobel peace prize." in it, he presents the many recipients of one of the world's best known and most prestigious awards and shines a spotlight on alfred nobel and discusses many leaders who were overlooked for the prize. he talks with "the wall street journal"'s international editor matt murphy. >> host: jay, it's good to see you. >> guest: you too. thank you. >> host: why this book? why a book about the peace prize? >> guest: i thought it was a good idea. i hope it is. it's a very interesting subject, i find. i mean, quite apart from my book and its qualities, it's just a plain interesting subject. and i think an author can only mess it up. it gives you, the peace prize gives you an overview of the 20th century because the prize, like the other nobel prizes, begins in 1901. so you march through the first war and the depression, second war,

and now joining us, is michael babcock. his book "un-christian america, living living with faith in a fashion that was never under god. professor let's start with the subtitle. what do you mean by that? >> yeah. that is a pretty pointed subtitle. and speaking first of as author. i've had the experience of writing titles for books that get shelved. they get changed along the way. that was one that develops in the course of publication. but it -- it is a fair and ak rant representation of the basic argument of the book? >> which is? >> that the notion of that america is a -- in some sense that is meaningful at christian nation. is something that is subject to be challenged. i try to challenge it in this book. and to really drive to the heart what does that mean to claim that america is a cultural, that is a christian nation. and really what i end up with is that it's christian only in culture in some sense. and that is christians as we need to understand what that means if we're going to live well and effectively with faith i