Ambassador for Peace: How Theodore Roosevelt Won the Nobel Peace PrizeThis is the little known story of how Theodore Roosevelt, as president, used his mediation and diplomatic skills to end the Russo Japanese War in 1905. Culminating in the Portsmouth Peace Treaty, this journey describes how TRs unrelenting determination bridged the inflexible divide between Japan and Russiatwo countries who could not muster the moral courage to embrace peace. The treaty fulfilled his foreign policy vision of a global balance of power