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Joe Exotic channels the spirit of America's 19th-century tiger kings

By Madeline Steiner, Post-Doctoral Fellow of History, University of South Carolina

“I am never gonna financially recover from this,” grumbles Joe Exotic, the subject of Netflix’s “Tiger King” documentary series.

Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, blithely utters the line after one of his employees has been brutally mauled by a tiger, making him seem comically indifferent to the man’s suffering.

This lack of compassion isn’t unique to Joe Exotic. As a self-proclaimed…

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