21 JULY 1979, page 19

Creating The Superman

Ferdinand Mount A Study of Nietzsche J.P. Stern (Cambridge £9.75) Nothing truly revolutionary can ever originate in the universities, Nietzsche said. He found the academic air......

Unnamed Names

Andrew Boyle The British Connection Richard Deacon (Hamish Hamilton £7.95) Richard Deacon is the pen-name of Donald McCormich, a former foreign manager of the Sunday Times.......

Backroom Boy

David Cardiff A World in Your Ear: The Broadcasting of an Era 1923-64 Robert Wood (Macmillan £6.95) The curious thing about the autobiographies of BBC men of the Reithian period......