New York Times writer Andrew Ross Sorkin 's Too Big to Fail: Wall Street's Near-Death Experience is t he too-important-to-ignore book of the moment. The details about Hank Paulson's interactions with executives from his old firm, Goldman Sachs, when he was Secretary of the Treasury are getting a lot of attention ( from Felix Salmon, for example ). And Sorkin's detailed account of the government's efforts to broker a deal to merge Goldman Sachs and Wachovia after Lehman Brothers failed last September is another highlight (you can read an excerpt of the book that covers this at Vanity Fair ). Sorkin spoke about these and other hot topics from the book with Charlie Ros e. Here's an excerpt in which Sorkin talks about former Lehman CEO Richard Fuld: Watch the full interview here .