In "a lively debut... with] plenty of enthusiastic 'can-do' advice" (Publishers Weekly), a Homeland Security advisor and a Pulitzer Prize-nominated columnist--and mother of three--delivers a timely message about American security: it begins at home.

Soccer Moms are so last decade. Juliette Kayyem is a "Security Mom." At once a national security expert who worked at the highest levels of government, and also a mom of three, she's lived it all--from anthrax to lice to the BP oil spill--and now she tells it all with her unique voice of reason, experience, and humility.

Weaving her...