Felix Salmon, writing on his Reuters blog following the publication of an excerpt of Too Big to Fail in Vanity Fair wrote:

If the excerpt gives any indication of the quality of the book as a whole, Sorkin has succeeded in writing the book of the crisis, with amazing levels of detail and access. Many books end up having much less detail than the day-to-day journalism in the papers, choosing instead to concentrate on the bigger picture. This one, by contrast, has a lot of detail….I’m looking forward to reading the book… This excerpt, more than anything else I’ve read in the orgy of one-year-later reminiscing, shows just how close the entire financial world came to collapse. It should be required reading for anybody in Congress who is breathing easily again and thinks that the worst is over and we don’t need to do too much in the way of regulatory reform.