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The last time Philadelphia hosted a political convention, it was 1948, and the city got three for one: Republicans, Democrats and the Progressive Party all gathered there. Although the Progressive Party would place last in the election, it sponsored one of the livelier conventions, with singalongs led by Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson. Many of the reforms it advocated were later adopted. Host Jacki Lyden talks with John Hyde, co-author of a biography of Henry Wallace, the Progressive Party Nominee. (American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace, by John C. Culver and John Hyde, W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 03930

Liane Hansen gauges the reaction around the country to the GOP convention, speaking with Mike Jacobs, editor of the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota; Mitch McKenney, Political Editor from the Akron, Ohio Beacon Journal; and Kate Nelson, columnist and Editorial Board member from the Albuquerque, New Mexico Tribune.

Writer Paul Auster reads stories sent in by Weekend All Things Considered listeners. For this installment of the story project, Paul Auster and host Jacki Lyden visit the famed Gotham Book Mart on 47th Street in Manhattan.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is John Slater from Wheaton, Illinois. He listens to Weekend Edition on member stations WBEZ, Chicago, and WNIJ in DeKalb.)

Liane talks to 18-year-old Katherine Tarbox about her experience as a teenager involved in an on-line relationship with a man she later discovered was a pedophile. Her book is called katie.com, published by Dutton (Penguin Group). (10:00).

Jeff Barry of member station KCLU in Thousand Oaks, Ca., reports from Sequoia National Forest on the status of the wildfires which are burning throughout the west. Firefighters in ten states from the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean are battling the blazes, which have burned more than 700,000 acres in recent weeks.

Liane talks with NPR's Anthony Brooks, who is travelling with Democratic Presidential hopeful Al Gore. The Vice President is gearing up for the Democratic Party convention, which begins next week in Los Angeles.

NPR's John Burnett reports from Big Bend National Park in Texas, where the drifting smoke from coal-burning power plants hundreds of miles away in Mexico has made the park one of the most polluted in the country.

Essayist Christopher Wynn contemplates a world in which anti-bacterial products become dangerous to one's health.

Fishing conjures up images of rushing blue water and crystal clear streams. While the East River in Harlem hardly compares to the traditional setting, some hardcore fishing buffs -- New Yorkers, no doubt -- still get the best of what the old-time sports has to offer. Annie Cheney reports from New York.