Books by Alan Olsen about friendship, citizenship, legacy and the work still worth doing.
80 Last Acts is the home of Alan Olsen’s books and public projects—a place for stories that preserve what matters, examine the American experiment and encourage each of us to leave something useful behind.
Every published book can be discovered here and purchased securely through Amazon.
Reflective stories and civic works, written to be shared across families, communities and generations.
Available nowA Reflection on Dogs, Presence, and the Lives We Share
Through the quiet rituals, unspoken bonds and everyday moments shared between humans and their dogs, Alan Olsen reflects on loyalty, presence, loss and the companions who teach us how to live.
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Broken Trust, the first book in Alan Olsen’s six-book civic series, examines the forces that divided Americans—and begins the larger search for renewal.
Bleed Air is a fact-inspired investigative thriller about friendship, integrity and the quiet courage required to keep asking difficult questions.
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Independent, AI-assisted public information about aircraft cabin-air monitoring, research and accountability—created to organize the public record and encourage a practical path toward routine measurement.
“A meaningful final chapter is not an ending. It is a decision about what we still have time to give.”
Alan Olsen is an author, former medical-technology executive and Vietnam-era Navy Corpsman. His books draw on a lifetime of business, service, friendship and citizenship—with one question always in view: what will we leave behind?
For reader correspondence, media inquiries and public-project questions:
aolsen@80lastacts.com