His study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.

Special assistant and Court Historian to President Kennedy -  1961-1963                          

Selected Works:

Orestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress - 1939
The Age of Jackson - 1945
The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom - 1949
What About Communism? - 1950
The General and the President, and the Future of American Foreign Policy - 1951

The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919-1933 - The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. I - 1957
The Coming of the New Deal: 1933-1935 - The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. II - 1958
The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-1936 - The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. III - 1960

Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference? - 1960
The Politics of Hope - 1962
Paths of American Thought - editor with Morton White - 1963
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House - 1965
The MacArthur Controversy and American Foreign Policy - 1965
Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy, 1941-1966 - 1967
Congress and the Presidency: Their Role in Modern Times - 1967
Violence: America in the Sixties - 1968
The Crisis of Confidence: Ideas, Power, and Violence in America - 1969
The Origins of the Cold War - 
The Imperial Presidency — 1973 - reissued in 1989 with epilogue & 2004
Robert Kennedy and His Times - 1978
Creativity in Statecraft - 1983 
Cycles of American History - 1986 
JFK Remembered - 1988 
 War and the Constitution: Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt - 1988
Is the Cold War Over? - 1990 
 The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society - 
 A Life in the 20th Century, Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 - 2000
 War and the American Presidency - 2004
 Journals 1952-2000 - 2007

He also wrote a book about Cleopatra.
Schlesinger's papers will be available at the New York Public Library                          

Mother Elizabeth Bancroft
Father Arthur M. Schlesinge
First wife Marian Cannon, four children
Second wife Alexandra Emmet, one stepchild.                          

Awards:

Pulitzer Prize for History - The Age of Jackson - 1946
Bancroft Prize - The Crisis of the Old Order - 1958
Francis Parkman Prize - The Crisis of the Old Order - 1958
National Book Award - A Thousand Days - 1965
Pulitzer Prize for Biography - A Thousand Days - 1966
National Book Award - Robert Kennedy and His Times - 1979
National Humanities Medal - 1998
Four Freedoms Award - 2003
Paul Peck Award - 2006
Medal Awarded by Elmhurst College to an individual who exemplifies the ideals of Reinhold and H. Richard Niebuhr - 2006

Schlesinger was greatly influenced by Reinhold Niebuhr.